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bull-dose, -doze, n. and v. orig. U.S. colloq.|ˈbʊldəʊz|
[According to U.S. newspapers, f. bull n.1 + dose.]
A. n. ? A severe dose (of flogging).
1876American Newspr., If a negro is invited to join it [a society called ‘The Stop’], and refuses, he is taken to the woods and whipped. This whipping is called a ‘bull-doze’, or doze fit for a bull. 1881Sat. Rev. 9 July 40/2 A ‘bull-dose’ means a large efficient dose of any sort of medicine or punishment.
B. v. (The usual spelling, influenced by bulldozer 2 a, is now bulldoze.)
1. a. ? To flog severely. b. To coerce by violence, intimidate.
1880C. B. Berry Other Side 155 They..pull him out of bed with a revolver to his head..That's called ‘bull-dosing’ a man. 1881Sat. Rev. 9 July 40/2 To ‘bull-dose’ a negro in the Southern States means to flog him to death, or nearly to death. 1884H. George Social Prob. 16 Large Employers regularly ‘bulldose’ their hands into voting as they wish. 1897E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly iii. 53 There is a remarkable resemblance..between the way in which English public opinion has been ‘bulldozed’ and misled in both cases. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee! viii. 104 Debenham backed Danvers up by..pointing out to Hawley the folly of handing a loaded revolver to Boder to examine. They simply bull-dozed Hawley. 1941G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii. 320 The philosophers who tried to bulldoze us into accepting the God of Aristotle as the God of Religion. 1954Encounter July 31/1 The men..were..trying to bulldoze the creative Czech artist..into conformity with the precepts of Socialist Realism.
2. a. intr. To use a bulldozer (bulldozer 2 a); also, to push one's way by means of a bulldozer. Also trans., to move, clear, or level by means of a bulldozer.
1942Interpretation Aerial Photographs (U.S. War Dept., Techn. Man. TM5-246) 188 The road was constructed by bulldozing the earth and painting the edges with asphalt paint. 1944Reader's Digest Aug. 93 Men were coming out of the sea continually and starting to work—digging, hammering, bulldozing. 1946Spectator 12 Apr. 372/1 Americans had to bulldoze their way through the rubble. 1948Time 5 July 19/3 Trucks were lumbering..up a goat path, newly bulldozed.
b. transf. and fig.
1948Sat. Rev. Lit. 21 Feb. 26 She bulldozed her way through her songs. 1950G. Barker News of World 37 The juggernauts Go bulldozing through my thoughts. 1963Rev. Eng. Studies XIV. 319 The second edition of 1934..has been bulldozed away and a new edifice constructed.
So ˈbulldozed ppl. a., ˈbulldozing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1876American Newspr., The application of the bull-doze was for the purpose of making Tilden voters; hence we hear of the ‘bull-dozed’ parishes. 1937Geogr. Jrnl. XC. 369 ‘Bull-dozing’, in which the vertical walls at the head of a gully are destroyed and a sloping surface constructed. 1949Good Housekeeping June 76/2 Every panacea-pamphlet that pours from the bull-dozing pens of doctrinaire Utopians. 1953Proc. Prehist. Soc. XIX. 232 The destruction of many of the downland earthworks by bulldozing and deep ploughing. |