bullock
see also: Bullock
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈbʊlək/
Noun

bullock (plural bullocks)

  1. (archaic) A young bull.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Leviticus 8:14 ↗:
      And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
  2. A castrated bull; an ox.
Translations Translations Verb

bullock (bullocks, present participle bullocking; past and past participle bullocked)

  1. To bully.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 47:
      Yes, you villain, you have defiled my own bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the truth.
    • 2017, podcast "Untold - The Daniel Morgan Murder", episode "Master of the Dark Arts", from minute 11:18
      So you never knew when you were gonna fall foul of a furious bullocking. So it became a case of bullocking management, basically. You know, how can I stave off the stress and the bullying for another few days.

Bullock
Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. Ellipsis of Bullock County
  3. Bullock Creek.
  4. An unincorporated community in Burlington County, and.
  5. A ghost town in Harding County, South Dakota.



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