bullroar
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
bullroar (countable and uncountable, plural bullroars)
- (countable) An extremely loud and vehement voice.
- 1988, Ian Meredith Hughes, Black Moon, Jade Sea, London: Clifford Frost Publishing, page 84:
- They protested vehemently with strangled groans, fat belches and rattling bullroars, spattering everyone with lacy, foul-smelling spittle, their necks and legs flailing in all directions and contorting their bodies as they were forcibly thrown to the ground by tying up a foreleg and heaving them heavily sideways.
- 1999, Marlene J[ohanna] Norst, Burnum Burnum: A Warrior for Peace, East Roseville, NSW: Kangaroo Press, →ISBN, page 33:
- Carmel remembers Harry's grandfather as having pure white hair and a bullroar of a voice.
- (countable) Synonym of bullroarer (a type of musical instrument)
- 2004, H. Sidky, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 268, column 2:
- Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars.
- (uncountable) Euphemistic form of bullshit.
- Cut out the bullroar and tell it to me like it is.
- 1962, Robert Newton Peck, The Happy Sadist, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 94:
- Let's flush this new fangled corporate image bullroar and get back to good old belly-to-counter selling.
- 2019 March 6, Ty Burr, “Like its title character, 'Captain Marvel' gets the job done”, in The Boston Globe[1], Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-25:
- In fact, without in the least playing like an agenda-driven blockbuster, "Captain Marvel" posits that female superheroes don't have time for bullroar and might just be better at taking care of business.
- 2022 June 15, “The Four Horsemen”, in God's Favorite Idiot, episode 7, spoken by Clark Thompson (Ben Falcone):
- You can even deny the apocalypse. But I'm not gonna let you bring Amily into your extraordinary brand of bullroar.
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References[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “bull roar n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang