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Definitions and meaning of bulldog

bulldog

Etymology

bull +‎ dog, in reference to bullbaiting.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊl.dɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊl.dɔɡ/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊl.dɑɡ/
• 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.
   1. The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
2. A stubborn or determined person.

3. A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
4. (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
   • 2019, Thomas Merton, Patrick F. O'Connell, Medieval Cistercian History (page lxxiii)

     […] and was confronted by a “bulldog,” a proctor's assistant in charge of discipline, who asked if he was a member of the university since he wasn't wearing a gown, and he was able to say that he wasn't, […]

5. (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
6. (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
   • 1940, Citizen Kane (film)

     The bulldog's just gone to press.

7. Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
8. (chiefly UK, sometimes capitalized) The children's game of British Bulldog or Red Rover.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• bull-bitch
• bull-pup

Descendants

• → French: bouledogue
• → German: Bulldogge
• → Portuguese: buldogue

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).

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

Further reading

• bulldog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.dɔɡ/
• Hyphenation: bull‧dog

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs, diminutive bulldogje n)

1. Alternative form of buldog.

   Synonym: bulhond

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bulldog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.dɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -uldɔɡ
• Hyphenation: bull‧dog

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. Alternative spelling of bouledogue

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bulldog.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bull‧dog

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. Alternative spelling of buldogue

Spanish

Alternative forms

• buldog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bulldog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈdoɡ/ [bul̪ˈd̪oɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -oɡ

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. bulldog

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.