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bullock

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbʊlək//

A castrated bull; an ox.

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA young bull.

    And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.

  2. 2

    A castrated bull; an ox.

Etymology

From Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk, corresponding to bull + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Dutch bullok (“bullock”).

verb

  1. 1

    To bully.

    Yes, you villain, you have defiled my own bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the truth.

    So you never knew when you were gonna fall foul of a furious bullocking. So it became a case of bullocking management, basically. You know, how can I stave off the stress and the bullying for another few days.

Forms

plural
bullocks
past tense
bullocked
past participle
bullocked
present participle
bullocking
third person singular
bullocks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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