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Definition: Bulldog |
BulldogAdjective1. Resembling or pertaining to a bulldog; "A bulldog appearance". 2. Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion". Noun1. A sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting. Verb1. Attack viciously and ferociously. 2. Throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bulldog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of entering strange premises and have a bulldog attack you, you will be in danger of transgressing the laws of your country by using perjury to obtain your desires. If one meets you in a friendly way, you will rise in life, regardless of adverse criticisms and seditious interference of enemies. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | A. A type of drill-rod-foot safety clamp built somewhat like a spider and slips, but differing by having the slips or movable jaws attached to, and actuated by, a foot-operated lever b. A general term applied to rod and/or casing safety clamps having both fixed and movable serrated jaws that contact and securely grip the rods or casing c. A fishing tool consisting of a steel body, tapered at the top, on which slide two or more wedge-shaped, serrated-face segments. Lowered into a tubular piece of lost equipment, such as casing, the serrated segments are pushed upward toward the narrow part of the body; when the tool is raised, the segments are forced outward, securely gripping the lost equipment. Also called bulldog spear; casing dog; casing spear d. To pull or move a drill machine or auxiliary equipment by means of a block and tackle or by power derived from a rope used on the drill catheador hoist drum. Also called cat; snake. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bulldog 
(larger version)Alternative names
British Bulldog English Bulldog Country of origin United Kingdom Classification
FCI: Group 2 Section 2 AKC: Non-sporting ANKC: Group 7 (Non-Sporting) CKC: Group 6 - Non-Sporting Dogs KC(UK): Utility NZKC: Non-sporting Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, KC(UK), NZKC Bulldog is a medium-sized dog breed, originally used for the cruel practice of bullbaiting, in which trained bulldogs attacked and killed tied-up bulls for amusement during the 17th century. The practice of bullbaiting was banned in England in 1835. Bulldogs are similar in appearance to the Boston Terrier.
The bulldog has a very smooth coat, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs and smaller hind legs. Contrary to classic cartoon parodies which depicted the bulldog as ferocious and wearing a spiked dog collar, the bulldog is not a vicious dog breed and gets along well with both humans and other dog breeds.
External Links
- The Bulldog Club of America
- Bulldog Pictures
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bulldog."
Synonyms: BulldogSynonyms: dogged (adj), dour (adj), pertinacious (adj), tenacious (adj), unyielding (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, intestinal fortitude; firmness; (stability); heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine; (perseverance) a. resolution; (determination); bulldog courage. |
Man, man of mettle; hero, demigod, Amazon, Hector; lion, tiger, panther, bulldog; fighting-cock; bully, fire eater. | |
Perseverance | Bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit; indefatigability, indefatigableness; bulldog courage. |
Resolution | Mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial; moral courage, moral strength; perseverance; a; tenacity; obstinacy; bulldog; British lion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bulldog |
| English words defined with "bulldog": bull mastiff, bull terrier, bullterrier ♦ French bulldog ♦ genus Myrmecia ♦ Myrmecia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bulldog": 3DO ♦ galvanized netting, galvanized wire netting ♦ rope fastening ♦ Wommer safety clamp ♦ YALE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bulldog" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (bulldog), Italian (bulldog). |
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Screenplays | Once, we successfully mated a bulldog with a shiatsu (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) What I don't like doing is pick---- I don't mind a little f g Pomeranian turd, but when that f g Bulldog unloads, you got to get an earth-mover and a f g gas mask to go in the kitchen, it's like f g plutonium turds (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) Turner's like a bulldog with eyes up his ass (Truck Turner; writing credit: Michael Allin; Jerry Wilkes) Hold up, Bulldog! How ya supposed to kill somethin' that's already dead (Tales from the Hood; writing credit: Rusty Cundieff; Darin Scott) So now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and what not to do, with Dim as his mindless grinning bulldog. But then I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and the oomny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bulldog Breed (1962) The Bulldog Breed (1960) Bulldog Drummond (1952) Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951) Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947) | |
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 | Figure 10. Bulldog sounder, invented by Marine Engineer Roughton, assistant engineer Steil, and naturalist George C. Wallich for use in deep water sounding operations by HMS BULLDOG in the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean in 1860 while under command of Sir Leopold McClintock RN. This device was also used on HMS PORCUPINE in water depths up to 3200 meters in 1862. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 20. Lucas scoop sounder, invented in 1891 by Francis Lucas of the English Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, this instrument was also called the "snapper." It was used primarily by ships engaged in submarine cable laying. It is a derivative of the Ross device, with elements of the British bulldog sounder. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Fat man holding closed umbrella with bulldog. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bulldog on the beach. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bulldog spiral" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "I cast about 100 of these plaster dogs. I have no idea why. does anybody want one?." | "Mack truck bulldog emblem" by Tammy Sharp Commentary: "Mack bulldog emblem on a B-75 Mack truck." |
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| "Bulldog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Bulldog" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bulldog": bulldog ant ♦ Bulldog bat ♦ bulldog bond ♦ bulldog clip ♦ bulldog courage ♦ bulldog edition ♦ bulldog grip ♦ Bulldog market ♦ bulldog wrench ♦ english bulldog ♦ french bulldog. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bulldog": bulldog-calf, bulldog-clip-round-the-nose. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bulldog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bulldog. (various references) | |
Arabic | كلب البلدغ, مسدس قصير الماسورة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смелчага (daredevil, desperado, hearty, spartan), булдог. (various references) | |
Chinese | 牛頭犬 . (various references) | |
Czech | buldok. (various references) | |
Danish | bulldog-obligation (bulldog bond), bulldog-marked (Bulldog market), bulldog-lån (bulldog bond), bulldog bond (bulldog bond), wireklemme (bulldog grip, wire clamp), tovklemme (bulldog grip, drilling clamp, rope grab, rope spear, wireline grapple), marked for fastforrentede sterling-obligationer emitteret i England af en udenlandsk låntager (Bulldog market), kabelklemme (bulldog clamp, bulldog grip, cable clamp, cable clip, cable collar, cable strap, clip, rope grab, rope spear), ikke-medtagelig røraftrækker (bulldog spear). (various references) | |
Dutch | bulldog-obligatie (bulldog bond), bull markt (Bulldog market), trekspeer (bulldog spear), trekbeugel (bail, bulldog grip, clamp, coulter clamp, coulter clip, swinging yoke), klamp (brace, bracket, clamp, parenthesis, staple), kabelklem (bulldog clamp, bulldog grip, cable clamp, cable clip, cable collar, cable strap, clip, drilling clamp, wire clamp). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی سگ بزرگ , بول داگ , برزمین افکندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | buldogi. (various references) | |
French | bouledogue. (various references) | |
German | bulldogge (mastiff). (various references) | |
Greek | σκύλοσ μπουλντώκ, μπουλντόγκ (bulldog grip). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בולדוג. (various references) | |
Hungarian | buldog. (various references) | |
Italian | bulldog, testardo (headstrong, mulish, obdurate, pigheaded, stubborn, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブルセラ病 (a brake, blouson, blue train, breaker, brucellosis, brunette, bull pen, bulldozer, sleeping train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブルドッグ . (various references) | |
Manx | tarroo-choo, moddey Sostynagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulldogbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | buldogue. (various references) | |
Romanian | buldog (mastiff). (various references) | |
Russian | бульдог. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | buldog, tvrdoglav čovek. (various references) | |
Spanish | buldog. (various references) | |
Swedish | bulldogg, pistol (gun, pistol, pistole, spray gun), ihärdig person (sticker). (various references) | |
Thai | จู่โจม (foray, raid, rush). (various references) | |
Turkish | buldok, büyük çaplı tabanca, yiğit (brave, courageous, dare devil, daredevil, Doughty, gallant, game, hero, manful, manly, plucky, red blooded, redoubtable, spartan, spunky, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bulldog": bulldogged, bulldogger, bulldoggers, bulldogging, bulldoggings, bulldogs. (additional references) | |
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"Bulldog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balrog, boldog, buldo, buuldog. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bulldog" (pronounced buh"ldô'g) |
| 3 | -d ô' g | gundog, hotdog, lapdog, underdog, watchdog. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-l-l-o-u" | |
-3 letters: bold, boll, bull, doll, dull, glob, gold, gull, loud. | |
-4 letters: bod, bog, bud, bug, dog, dol, dub, dug, duo, gob, god, gul, lob, log, lug, old, oud, udo. | |
-5 letters: bo, do, go, lo, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-l-l-o-u" | |
+1 letter: bulldogs. | |
+3 letters: bloodguilt, bulldogged, bulldogger, bulldozing. | |
+4 letters: bloodguilts, bloodguilty, bulldoggers, bulldogging. | |
+5 letters: bulldoggings. | |
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