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Entries releated to BULL

 

BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL		A roundabout, nonsensical story.
BEAR		One who contracts to deliver a certain quantity of sum of stock in the public funds, on a future day, and at stated price; or, in other words, sells what he has not got, like the huntsman in the fable, who sold the bear's skin before the bear was killed. As the bear sells the stock he is not possessed of, so the bull purchases what he has not money to pay for; but in case of any alteration in the price agreed on, either party pays or receives the difference. Exchange Alley.
BEGGAR'S BULLETS		Stones. The beggar's bullets began to fly, i.e. they began to throw stones.
BELL SWAGGER		A noisy bullying fellow.
BLOSS or BLOWEN		The pretended wife of a bully, or shoplifter.
BLUE PLUMB		A bullet. - Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R - 's blue plumbs; a volley of ball, shot from soldiers' firelocks.
BLUFF		Fierce, surly. He looked as bluff as bull beef.
BLUSTER		To talk big, to hector or bully.
BUCKEEN		A bully. IRISH.
BUGABOE		A scare-babe, or bully-beggar.
BULL		An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on speculation for time, i.e. agrees with the seller, called a Bear, to take a certain sum of stock at a future day, at a stated price: if at that day stock fetches more than the price agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper, he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out of the Alley. See LAME DUCK and BEAR.
BULL		A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great whore-master.
BULL		A crown piece. A half bull; half a crown.
BULL BEGGAR, or BULLY BEGGAR		An imaginary being with which children are threatened by servants and nurses, like raw head and bloody bones.
BULL CALF		A great hulkey or clumsy fellow. See HULKEY.
BULL CHIN		A fat chubby child.
BULL DOGS		Pistols.
BULL HANKERS		Persons who over-drive bulls, or frequent bull baits.
BULL'S EYE		A crown-piece.
BULL'S FEATHER		A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold.
BULLY		A cowardly fellow, who gives himself airs of great bravery. A bully huff cap; a hector. See HECTOR.
BULLY BACK		A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit to the impositions of the mother abbess, or bawd; and who also sometimes pretends to be the husband of one of the ladies, and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom he finds with her. See GREENHORN.
BULLY COCK		One who foments quarrels in order to rob the persons quarrelling.
BULLY RUFFIANS		Highwaymen who attack passengers with paths and imprecations.
BULLY TRAP		A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in.
CACAFEOGO		A shite-fire, a furious braggadocio or bully huff.
CAPTAIN SHARP		A cheating bully, or one in a set of gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting roguery, refuses to pay what he has lost.
COCK AND A BULL STORY		A roundabout story, without head or tail, i.e. beginning or ending.
COW'S SPOUSE		A bull.
DING BOY		A rogue, a hector, a bully, or sharper.
FLASH MAN		A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
GIGG		A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip his nose. Grunter's gigg; a hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise, and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock.
HANK		He has a hank on him; i.e. an ascendancy over him, or a hold upon him. A Smithfield hank; an ox, rendered furious by overdriving and barbarous treatment. See BULL HANK.
HECTOR		bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.
HUFF		To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house.
HUNG BEEF		A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fellow with a bull's pizzle.
KEEL BULLIES		Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels.
KIMBAW		To trick, cheat or cozen; also to beat or to bully. Let's kimbaw the cull; let's bully the fellow. To set one's arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced a-kimbo, is to rest one's hands on the hips, keeping the elbows square, and sticking out from the body; an insolent bullying attitude.
KNIGHT OF THE BLADE		A bully.
NIGHTINGALE		A soldier who, as the term is, sings out at the halberts. It is a point of honour in some regiments, among the grenadiers, never to cry out, become nightingales, whilst under the discipline of the cat of nine tails; to avoid which, they chew a bullet.
PARISH BULL		A parson.
RAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONES		A bull beggar, or scarechild, with which foolish nurses terrify crying brats.
RESCOUNTERS		The time of settlement between the bulls and bears of Exchange-alley, when the losers must pay their differences, or become lame ducks, and waddle out of the Alley.
REVERSED		A man set by bullies on his head, that his money may fall out of his breeches, which they afterwards by accident pick up. See HOISTING.
RIDING SKIMMINGTON		A ludicrous cavalcade, in ridicule of a man beaten by his wife. It consists of a man riding behind a woman, with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle; a smock displayed on a staff is carried before them as an emblematical standard, denoting female superiority: they are accompanied by what is called the ROUGH MUSIC, that is, frying-pans, bulls horns, marrow-bones and cleavers, etc. A procession of this kind is admirably described by Butler in his Hudibras. He rode private, i.e. was a private trooper.
ROUGH MUSIC		Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, etc. beaten upon and sounded in ludicrous processions.
SCOT		A young bull.
SLASHER		A bullying, riotous fellow. IRISH.
STOCK JOBBERS		Persons who gamble in Exchange Alley, by pretending to buy and sell the public funds, but in reality only betting that they will be at a certain price, at a particular time; possessing neither the stock pretended to be sold, nor money sufficient to make good the payments for which they contract: these gentlemen are known under the different appellations of bulls, bears, and lame ducks.
SWAGGER		To bully, brag, or boast, also to strut.
SWELL		A gentleman. A well-dressed map. The flashman bounced the swell of all his blunt; the girl's bully frightened the gentleman out of all his money.
TOWN BULL		A common whoremaster. To roar like a town bull; to cry or bellow aloud.
WISE		As wise as Waltham's calf, that ran nine miles to suck a bull.