buller
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/
美 /ˈbʊlɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
- The bubbling or seething of a torrent.
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A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
— Male cattle ('riders') in intensive housing are prone to mount herdmates willing to stand to be mounted ('bullers'). The buller-steer syndrome has been estimated to cost $70 per head, which can represent significant losses in large feedlots (Blackshaw et al., 1997). Incidence of bullers in a feedlot was about 2% (409 bullers in 20,428 mixed breed steers, Irwin et al., 1979).
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A homosexual man.
— My mother always mentioned these teachings when she saw a buller man or heard about someone thought to be a buller.
动词 v.
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To boil or seethe.
— The still liquid element startled uprears, It bubbled and bullered and roared in his ears, Like thunder that gallows on high.
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To make a lot of noise.
— "Sae we let go the rape,” said David, “ and he went adown the water screeching and bullering like a Bull of Bashan, as he's ca'd in Scripture.”
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To force one's way; to be pushy.
— It was not that he bullered and swore like so many of his farmer neighbours. Their men knew what to expect from them, and they swore back, knowing that the next day they could speak to them as if nothing had happened. But Will Murray was different. His word was law.
词源
词源 1
From Scots buller (“to boil, seethe”). Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse bulla (“to boil”) and Old French bullir (“to boil”), Latin bulliō (“to boil”), all from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”).
词源 2
From Scots buller, bullir (“to bellow, roar”), likely of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to roar”). Compare Danish buldre (“to rumble”), Swedish bullra (“to make a noise, roar, rumble”).
词源 3
From bull + -er.
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