Word.ws English Dictionary

Irish bulls

Irish bulls is the plural of Irish bull.

Meaning of Irish bull

Noun

Irish bull (plural Irish bulls)

  1. A ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statement.
    • Like the argot once confined to a class, some of his phrases have become part of the general idiom. A Dundrearyism can be recognized as soon as uttered, like an Irish bull.1878 October 1, John Oxenford, “Lord Dundreary”, in The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine, volume 1, London: Wyman & Sons, pages 198–199

Questions about Irish bulls

What is Irish bulls the plural of?
Irish bulls is the plural of Irish bull.

Words near Irish bulls in the dictionary

  1. Irish breakfast tea
  2. Irish breakfast teas
  3. Irish buggies
  4. Irish buggy
  5. Irish bull
  6. Irish bulls
  7. Irish car
  8. Irish car bomb
  9. Irish car bombs
  10. Irish cars
  11. Irish clubhouse

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Irish bulls (page history and authors); Irish bull (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Irish bulls.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/irish_bulls. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.