bulldog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
media
military
politics
professional-wrestling
publishing
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From bull + dog, in reference to bullbaiting.
Compound parts: bull
dog
Inflected forms:
form: bulldogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bulldogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bulldogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bulldogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bulldogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A stubborn or determined person.
pos: noun
examples: We need a lawyer who will fight for our case, a real bulldog.
His bulldog determination was destined to bring him the opportunity he was seeking.
gloss: A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the proctors' officers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: […] 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, […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A bulldog edition.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The bulldog's just gone to press.
gloss: Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
pos: noun
gloss: The children's game of British Bulldog or Red Rover.
pos: noun
tags: UK
capitalized
sometimes
examples: "... playing bulldog in the yard so I know you're fit enough to fight. Have you decided when you're coming back?”
[…] playing bulldog on the plaza in front of the meeting hall.
[…] playing bulldog, that game where you have two teams, one team runs and the other one catches. You have to run from […]
Once Tyson skidded on some wet leaves when he and his friends were playing Bulldog in the park. As he lay on the ground they all laughed at him, even Ajay, and although he'd twisted his ankle, what hurt most was his pride.
gloss: To force oneself (in a particular direction).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: So to give you some idea, we had scenarios where Yamato came steaming over the horizon and just bulldogged its way straight through the American battleline, and the whole thing was done and dusted inside of an hour, with 18-inch shells just blowing apart anything in sight.
gloss: To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: English bulldog
Related words: bull-bitch
bull-pup
Derived words: British bulldog
bulldog bat
bulldog clip
bulldog edition
bulldogger
bulldoggish
bulldog gravy
bulldoggy
bulldog rat
bulldog scalp
Darwin's bulldog
Dutch bulldog
like a bulldog with a bone
make a rabbit bite a bulldog
white English bulldog
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بلدغ
lang: Bulgarian
word: булдо́г
roman: buldóg
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 牛頭犬 /牛头犬
roman: niútóuquǎn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鬥牛犬 /斗牛犬
roman: dòuniúquǎn
lang: Czech
word: buldok
lang: Dutch
word: buldog
lang: Esperanto
word: buldogo
lang: Finnish
word: bulldoggi
lang: French
word: bouledogue
lang: German
word: Bulldogge
lang: Greek
word: μπουλντόγκ
roman: boulntógk
lang: Hebrew
word: בולדוג
roman: buldog
lang: Hungarian
word: buldog
lang: Ido
word: buldogo
lang: Italian
word: bulldog
lang: Japanese
word: ブルドッグ
roman: burudoggu
lang: Korean
word: 불도그
roman: buldogeu
lang: Latin
word: molossus
lang: Lithuanian
word: buldogas
lang: Macedonian
word: булдог
roman: buldog
lang: Malay
word: anjing bulldog
lang: Maltese
word: buldog
lang: Polish
word: buldog
lang: Portuguese
word: bulldog
lang: Portuguese
word: buldogue
lang: Russian
word: бульдо́г
roman: bulʹdóg
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: булдог
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: самсов
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: buldog
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: samsov
lang: Slovene
word: buldog
lang: Spanish
word: bulldog
lang: Spanish
word: buldog
lang: Spanish
word: dogo
lang: Swedish
word: bulldogg
lang: Tagalog
word: buldog
lang: Volapük
word: toradoeg
lang: Yiddish
word: בולדאָג
roman: buldog