bulldozer

English

A bulldozer.

Etymology

Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US); bulldoze +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊldoʊzɚ/

Noun

bulldozer (plural bulldozers)

1. A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
2. One who bulldozes.
3. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
4. (by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.

Synonyms

• (member of intimidating white US Southerners): regulator

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• blade (slang, 1940s and after)

Translations

tractor

• Afrikaans: stootskraper (af)
• Albanian: buldozer (sq) m
• Arabic: جَرَّارَة f (jarrāra), جَرَّافَة f (jarrāfa), بُولْدُوزَر m (buldūzar)
• Armenian: բուլդոզեր (hy) (buldozer)
• Azerbaijani: buldozer
• Belarusian: бульдо́зер m (bulʹdózjer)
• Bulgarian: булдо́зер m (buldózer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推土機／推土机 (zh) (tuītǔjī), 推土机 (zh) (tuītǔjī)

• Czech: buldozer m
• Danish: bulldozer (da)
• Dutch: laadschop (nl) m or f
• Estonian: buldooser
• Finnish: puskutraktori (fi), raivaustraktori
• French: bulldozer (fr) m
• Georgian: ბულდოზერი (buldozeri)
• German: Planierraupe (de) f, Bulldozer (de) m
• Greek: μπουλντόζα (el) f (boulntóza)
• Greenlandic: bulldozeri
• Hebrew: בולדוזר m (buldozer)
• Hungarian: bulldózer (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðýta (is)
• Indonesian: buldoser (id)
• Interlingua: bulldozer
• Italian: bulldozer (it) m, apripista m or f, ruspa (it) f, escavatore (it) m, escavatrice (it) f
• Japanese: ブルドーザー (burudōzā)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 불도저 (ko) (buldojeo)
• Latvian: buldozers m
• Lithuanian: buldozeris m
• Macedonian: булдо́жер m (buldóžer)
• Malay: jentolak, buldozer
• Maori: wakapana
• Navajo: chidí naaʼnaʼí bidááhdę́ę́ʼ yee nahazidí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bulldoser m

  Nynorsk: bulldosar m

• Persian: بولدوزر (fa) (buldōzer)
• Polish: buldożer (pl) m, spycharka (pl) f
• Portuguese: trator (de terraplanagem/terraplenagem) m
• Romanian: buldozer (ro) n
• Russian: бульдо́зер (ru) m (bulʹdózer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: булдожер m

  Roman: buldožer (sh) m

• Slovak: buldozér m
• Slovene: buldožer (sl) m
• Spanish: aplanadora (es) f, bulldozer (es) m
• Swahili: buldoza
• Tagalog: pamungkal-sudsod
• Turkish: buldozer (tr)
• Ukrainian: бульдо́зер (uk) m (bulʹdózer)
• Vietnamese: xe ủi đất

Verb

bulldozer (third-person singular simple present bulldozers, present participle bulldozering, simple past and past participle bulldozered)

1. To bulldoze (push through forcefully).

Further reading

• bulldozer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bulldozer.

Noun

bulldozer c (definite plural bulldozeren, indefinite plural bulldozere, definite plural bulldozerne)

1. a bulldozer (crawler tractor with an attached blade)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  bulldozer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.do.zɛʁ/, /byl.do.zɛʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

bulldozer m (plural bulldozers)

1. bulldozer

Further reading

• “bulldozer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Noun

bulldozer m (plural bulldozeres)

1. bulldozer