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bullroars

bullroars is the plural of bullroar.

Meaning of bullroar

Noun

bullroar (countable and uncountable, plural bullroars)

  1. (countable) An extremely loud and vehement voice.
    • They protested vehemently with strangled groans, fat belches and rattling bullroars, spattering everyone with lacy, foul-smelling spittle, their necks and legs flailing in all directions and contorting their bodies as they were forcibly thrown to the ground by tying up a foreleg and heaving them...1988, Ian Meredith Hughes, Black Moon, Jade Sea, London: Clifford Frost Publishing, page 84
  2. (countable) Synonym of bullroarer (a type of musical instrument).
    • Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars.2004, H. Sidky, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 268, column 2
    Synonyms:
    bullroarer

Questions about bullroars

What is bullroars the plural of?
Bullroars is the plural of bullroar.

Words near bullroars in the dictionary

  1. bullring
  2. bullrings
  3. bullroar
  4. bullroarer
  5. bullroarers
  6. bullroars
  7. bullrout
  8. bullrouts
  9. bullrun
  10. bullruns
  11. bullrush

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