bulldog

English

Etymology

From bullbaiting and dog.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bull‧dog

Noun

bulldog (plural bulldogs)

1. A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies companion dog. Having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs and smaller hind legs.
2. A shortened form of British bulldog.
3. A stubborn person.

Synonyms

• (breed of dog) English bulldog
• See also Wikisaurus:stubborn person

Derived terms

Terms derived from bulldog (noun)

British bulldog

bulldog edition

bulldog gravy

Translations

breed of dog

• Bulgarian: булдог (bg) (buldóg) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牛頭犬 (cmn), 牛头犬 (cmn) (niútóuquǎn)

• Czech: buldok (cs) m
• Dutch: buldog (nl) m
• Finnish: buldogi
• French: bouledogue (fr) m
• German: Bulldogge (de) f
• Greek: μπουλντόγκ (el) (bouldóg) n 
• Hebrew: בולדוג (he) (buldog) m
• Hungarian: buldog (hu)
• Japanese: ブルドッグ (ja) (burudoggu)

• Korean: 불독 (ko) (buldok)
• Latin: Molossus (la) m
• Lithuanian: buldogas (lt) m
• Malay: anjing bulldog (ms)
• Maltese: buldog (mt)
• Russian: бульдог (ru) (bulʹdóg) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: булдог (sh) m, самсов (sh) m

  Roman: buldog (sh) m, samsov (sh) m

• Slovene: buldog (sl) m
• Spanish: bulldog (es) m, buldog (es) m, dogo (es) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) toradoeg (vo), (♂) torahidoeg (vo), (♀) torajidoeg (vo), (♂♀ offspring) toradoegül (vo), (♂ offspring) torahidoegül (vo), (♀ offspring) torajidoegül (vo)

British bulldog — see British bulldog

Related terms

• bull-bitch
• bull-pup

Quotations

• 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records

  Big Jim the Chief stood for law and order.... Now from his bulldog mouth... Came the cry, “We got to ride to clean up the streets...!”

Verb

bulldog (third-person singular simple present bulldogs, present participle bulldogging, simple past and past participle bulldogged)

1. (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).

External links

• Bulldog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia