bullockn.
/ˈbʊlək/, U.S. /ˈbʊlək/ 1. Originally a young bull, or bull calf; but afterwards, and in later times always, a castrated bull, an ox.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > young
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bulchin1330
ox calfa1450
bulkin1600
hog bull1811
novillo1831
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock
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oxeOE
bullocka1000
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bovert?a1400
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ox stirk1550
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horny1808
piker1887
a1000 Interlinear Gloss. on the Liber Scintillarum (MS. Reg. 7. C.iv) liv To bulluce [L. ad vitulum].
a1240 Cuckoo Song in Ritson Anc. Songs 3 Bulluc sterteþ. bucke uerteþ.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Bullok, boculus, vitulus.
1521 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 122 Item, delyuerid the boloks, vj, acordyng after ye will.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. C.jv I know that: but my minde was on bullockes and steeres.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 184 Why thats spoken like an honest Drouier, so they sell bullockes . View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms li. 19 Then shall they offer bullockes vpon thine altar. View more context for this quotation
1720 J. Gay Trivia iii, in Poems I. 184 Here lowing bullocks raise their horned head.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iv. 427 Bullocks are..more used to plough than camels.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun]
oxeOE
bullock1535
beef1583
bovine1845
Murray grey1963
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun]
bullc1175
taurc1386
bullock1535
taurine1888
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxi. 10 Their bullock gendreth, and that not out of tyme.
1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 337 Bullocks, a general term, in Norfolk, for all kinds of cattle at turneps..whether they be oxen, steers, heifers, or cows.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Bullock, a fat beast of either sex..‘Yes, she's a purty cow..one of these days she'll make a nice bullock.’
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > papal documents > [noun] > bull
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bill1450
pontificala1500
bullock1537
legative bull1548
1537 H. Latimer Let. 15 July in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 378 I send you here a bullock which I did find amongst my bulls.
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiiii. 108 Some egge vs sla the Prince, and shewe a Bullocke fra the Pape.
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4. A slang term applied in Australian cities to a countryman or bushman.
Compounds
C1. Simple attributive.
bullock-bell n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > equipment
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salebandc1299
shacklec1460
marking stone1534
low bell1578
baikiea1598
nose-hook1778
sjambok1790
shangy1808
cow-bell1809
ox frame1844
bullwhip1848
humbug1850
stock-whip1852
bull-whacker1858
cattle-bell1872
bull-whack1885
leading-staff1886
bullock-bell1911
bull-holder1940
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling v. 48 I fancy there is a bullock-bell somewhere, Joe.
1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country viii. 126 The bullock bells added to the orchestra of frogs and the millions of crickets.
bullock-car n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > chariot > drawn by oxen
bullock-car1830
bullock-chariot1837
1830 W. S. Moorsom Lett. from Nova Scotia 241 The Portuguese bullock-car of Peninsular memory.
1903 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 8/2 Mr. Chamberlain..subsequently proceeded to Mount Church, partly by municipal bullock-car.
bullock-carriage n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > drawn by oxen
bullock-carriage1839
1839 Lett. from Madras (1843) 299 All the poor widows, with their palanquins and bullock-carriages covered with black cloth.
bullock-cart n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > drawn by ox or oxen
ox-cart1737
bullock-cart1828
1828 New Monthly Mag. 23 220 A black fellow with a seine, can load a bullock-cart at one or two hauls.
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 47 The difference..is 48 hours by bullock-carts.
bullock-chariot n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > chariot > drawn by oxen
bullock-car1830
bullock-chariot1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. xii. 356 Bullock-chariots, and goadsmen in Roman Costume.
bullock-dray n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides > drawn by oxen
bullock-dray1857
1857 W. Westgarth Victoria & Gold Mines xi. 251 Carriage by bullock-drays from Melbourne.
bullock-gear n.
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1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. ii. 19 Every sort of saddlery, bullock-gear, and harness of every description.
bullock-hump n.
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1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1355 The bullock-hump..is not by any means so characteristic of this race.
bullock-land n.
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1881 Daily News 31 Aug. 2/2 The excellent bullock land..would meet ready purchasers.
bullock-load n.
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1803 Duke of Wellington Let. 4 Dec. in Dispatches (1837) II. 567 We have not lost a bullock-load of any thing during the war.
bullock-pasture n.
bullock-shed n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle house
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shipponc900
neat-house1440
oxhousea1475
fee-house1483
cow-house1530
neatery1647
cow-stable1648
mistal1673
hemel1717
bull-house1808
barn-cellar1842
tie-up1851
cow-shippon1859
bullock-shed1865
cow-shed1886
1865 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 105 The filthy quarters allotted me in an old bullock-shed..exhausted all endurance.
bullock-ship n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying cattle
cow-carrier1666
bullock-ship1858
bullocker1915
1858 W. Ellis Three Visits Madagascar ii. 21 Mr. Jeffreys..died during a voyage from Madagascar to Mauritius in the miserable hold of a bullock ship.
bullock-train n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock > train of
bullock-train1859
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 182 The Government has a bullock-train for the conveyance of stores.
bullock-turnip n.
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1884 Whitby Gaz. 9 Aug. 2/5 The crop of..bullock turnips must now be sown.
bullock-vessel n.
bullock-wagon n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > drawn by oxen
ox-wagon1735
ox-wain1820
bullock-wagon1863
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xi. 179 There were some Tartar peasants passing..with small bullock-waggons.
bullock-wainster n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of team of animals > of bullocks
bullock-driver1792
bullock-puncher1856
bull-whacker1858
bull-puncher1872
bullock-wainster1883
bullocker1889
bullocky1889
1883 Good Words July 420/1 The bullock-wainster who dared to hinder his progress.
C2. Objective genitive.
bullock-driver n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of team of animals > of bullocks
bullock-driver1792
bullock-puncher1856
bull-whacker1858
bull-puncher1872
bullock-wainster1883
bullocker1889
bullocky1889
1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 175 We lost..about 600 privates, besides pack-horse and bullock-drivers.
1862 G. T. Lloyd 33 Years Tasmania xix. 480 Shepherds, Bullock drivers, and other servants were seized with the desire to turn diggers of gold.
bullock-teasing n.
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1879 E. Dowden Southey iii. 47 The sorry spectacle of bullock-teasing made a slighter impression on him.
C3.
bullock-leech n. a cattle-doctor.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinarian > other veterinary specialists
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beast leech1627
dogleech1638
greasera1642
cow-leech1745
bullock-leech1774
cow-doctor1789
theriogenologist1970
1774 Lambert in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 498 A farrier and bullock-leach.
bullock-puncher n. Australian and New Zealand = bullock-driver n. at Compounds 2.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of team of animals > of bullocks
bullock-driver1792
bullock-puncher1856
bull-whacker1858
bull-puncher1872
bullock-wainster1883
bullocker1889
bullocky1889
1856 W. H. S. Roberts Diary 19 Sept. in H. Beattie Early Runholding in Otago (1947) i. vi. 43 The whip..was a powerful flagellator in the hands of an experienced ‘bullock-puncher’.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxxviii. 382 Owners and employees had worked shoulder to shoulder as..bullock-punchers.
bullock-punching n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving a team of bullocks
bullock-punching1891
1891 G. Chamier Philosopher Dick II. xv. 411 He soon got charge of a team, and was loud in expatiating on the art of bullock-punching.
bullock's-eye n. (see quot.; cf. bull's-eye n.); also see Compounds 4.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > skylights, etc.
lucarne1548
shop light1602
skylight?c1660
bullock's-eye1728
lunette1742
roof light1763
light well1826
abat-jour1838
light shaft1870
dead-light1882
laylight1932
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Eye Bullock's Eye, or Oeuil de Bœuf, is a little Sky-Light in the Covering, or Roof, intended to illumine a Granary, or the like.
bullock-trunk n. a trunk suited for carriage in a bullock-cart, or on bullock-back.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes
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trussing mail1485
trussing chest1540
trunk1609
portmanteau trunk1683
hair-trunk1693
mail-trunka1726
trunkie1728
trunk-mail1771
imperial1773
cedar chest1775
Noah's Ark1803
wardrobe trunk1815
dress case1819
yakdan1824
pitara1828
bullock-trunk1844
dress basket1857
Saratoga trunk1857
Saratoga1863
black jack1885
innovation trunk1912
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 160 Bullock-trunks..are preferable, as they are permanently useful.
C4. In the names of various plants.
bullock's eye n. the common Houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > houseleek
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homeworteOE
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cyphel1691
fouat1822
bullock's eye1861
Jupiter's beard1861
thunder-plant1866
1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 57 House-leek..is frequently called Jupiter's Eye, Bullock's Eye, or Jupiter's Beard.
bullock's heart n. the fruit of Anona reticulata.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
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zizypha1546
guava1555
tuna1555
turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > other tropical or exotic fruits
tamarind1539
guava1555
genipat1568
jack1582
genipap1613
custard apple1648
star apple1693
sweet-sop1696
breadfruit1697
sugar-apple1739
sweet-apple1760
guarri1789
ackee1792
marmalade-box1796
five-corner1826
jakkalsbessie1854
Molucca berry1861
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
vegetable egg1866
Jew plum1880
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Bullock's Heart, a name given to the fruit of Anona reticulata, a kind of custard apple.
bullock's lungwort n. the Great Mullein, Verbascum Thapsus L.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > mullein
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verbascumOE
Thapsusa1400
mullein?a1425
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high-taper1526
tapsebarbe1526
lungwort1538
torch1552
moth mullein1578
wolleyn1578
woollen1578
hedge-taper1579
wool-blade1585
bullock's lungwort1597
candlewick mullein1597
mullet1597
torch-herb1598
taperwort1601
torchwort1647
Jupiter's staff1664
cow's lungwort1777
shepherd's club1790
woollens1800
flannel-leaf1821
Adam's flannel1828
flannel-plant1849
king's taper1858
torch-blade1861
velvet-dock1863
Jacob's staff1879
shepherd's staff1882
wool-plant1883
shepherd's gourd1896
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 630 The countrey people..in Kent, doe giue their cattell the leaues to drinke against the cough of the lungs..whereupon they do call it Bullocks Longwoort.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 135 Great Mullein..was..Bullock's Lungwort.
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bullockv.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > behave threateningly > as a bully
bullock1715
bully1733
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)]
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argh1393
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matea1400
boasta1522
quail1526
brag1551
appale1563
browbeat1581
adaw1590
overdare1590
dastard1593
strike1598
disdare1612
cowa1616
dare1619
daw1631
bounce1640
dastardize1645
intimidate1646
hector1664
out-hector1672
huff1674
bully1685
harass1788
bullyraga1790
major1829
haze1851
bullock1875
to push (someone) around1900
to put the frighteners in, on1958
psych1963
vibe1979
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > restrain or force by threatening > bully
swagger1608
bounce1640
hector1664
huff1674
huff1680
bully1685
bullyraga1790
bullock1875
advantage1921
1715 [see bullocking n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. vi. 121 You have charged me with bullocking you into owning the Truth. View more context for this quotation
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret ii. 40 She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me.
1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 61 Fair play! yo munnot bullock him.
2. intransitive. To work like a bullock, i.e. strenuously without intermission. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil
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swingc1000
swinkOE
travailc1275
carka1350
tavec1350
to-swinkc1386
labourc1390
byswenke?a1400
tevelc1400
toilc1400
pingle1511
carp1522
moilc1529
turmoil1548
mucker1566
tug1619
tuggle1650
fatigue1695
hammer1755
fag1772
bullock1888
slog1888
to sweat one's guts out1890
schlep1937
slug1943
1888 [see bullocking n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 19 We've..come down to have a bit of a holiday before going back to bullock for another six months or a year.
1900 [see bullocking n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) iii. 52 If he had not ‘bullocked’ and sweated and driven himself.
3. to bullock one's way: to make one's way with heavy violence.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > effect forward movement in specific way > in other specific ways
smell1608
to bore one's waya1705
slice1872
sing1890
nose1894
to bullock one's way1909
muscle1934
to winkle one's way1979
1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 1/2 Sir William has frequently been referred to as ‘bullocking’ his way through Parliament.
1921 Public Opinion 10 June 538/2 To bullock his way through a British Amateur Championship.
1930 V. Palmer Passage i. 15 Fred was tough as tarred canvas, able to bullock his way anywhere.
1965 Economist 31 July 416/2 They picked, by a narrow majority, the man they reckoned most likely to bullock their way back into power.
Derivatives
ˈbullocking n. and adj.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > [adjective]
dauntinga1400
dismayfulc1595
huffing1602
dismaying1653
disheartening1654
disanimating1659
hectoring1664
bullying1681
bullocking1715
intimidatinga1812
browbeating1816
appalling1817
cowing1843
intimidatorya1846
dompting1912
fuck-off1962
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > bullying
huffing1602
bullying1681
bullocking1715
roughshod1888
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > [noun] > instance or action of intimidating or bullying
daunta1400
dauntingc1400
fear1426
discomfort1512
discouraging1578
appalement1579
browbeating1581
appall1598
huffing1600
appaling1603
appalment1611
disheartening1619
intimidation1658
hectorism1672
bullying1680
bullocking1715
huff1773
bullyism1821
disheartenment1830
table-thumping1839
bulldozing1876
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > restraint or compulsion by threats > bullying
huffing1600
bullying1680
bullocking1715
huff1773
bullyism1821
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > action of
wrestling?c1225
travailingc1330
tewing1394
labouringc1400
sweatingc1430
toiling1549
moiling1565
carking1583
allaboration1727
fagging1777
bullocking1888
schlepping1937
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling
swinking?c1225
travailinga1398
drudging1548
toiling1552
toilsome1566
toilful1596
sweaty1603
droiling1607
carkingc1620
laboriferous1656
fagging1665
moiling1692
tewing1855
maulinga1864
bullocking1900
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 272 Upon the Evidence of that bullocking Fryar Campanella.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms vii It would have paid us better if we'd read a little more and put the ‘bullocking’ on one side.
1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 12 You'll never make money, except by hard graft—hard, bullocking nigger-driving graft.
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