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English
English : variant of Bulman.Altered spelling of German Bollmann or Bullmann, a variant of Bull 2.
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English (Cambridgeshire)
English (Cambridgeshire) : probably a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a cattle shed, or a topographic name for someone who lived by one, from a reduced form of Middle English bulehus ‘bull house’, from bul(l)e, bol(l)e ‘bull’ + h(o)us ‘house’.Latvian : nickname or metonymic occupational name from bullis ‘bull’.
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English (chiefly Northamptonshire)
English (chiefly Northamptonshire) : probably from the obsolete slang term facer, denoting a braggart or bully. The earliest citation for this term in OED is c. 1515.Americanized spelling of German Feeser.
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Bullen or an altered form of Bullions, a variant of Bullion.
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English
English : variant of Billington, found as such in colonial VA.English : There are also two places in England named Bullington, in Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire, and it is possible that either or both of these could have given rise to the surname.
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English
English : variant of Buller 2.
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English
English : occupational name for a scribe or copyist, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French bulle ‘letter’, ‘document’.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from a place in Normandy that has not been identified. If it is Bouillé, and so identical with Bulley 1, the -er(s) may have arisen by analogy with other Norman place names in -ière(s) (see for example Villers).German : nickname for a man with a loud voice, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bullen ‘to roar’ (of imitative origin).
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English
English : most probably from bullward, an occupational name for someone who looked after a bull.English : alternatively, it may be a nickname for a fraudster, from Old French, Middle English bole ‘fraud’, ‘deceit’ + the pejorative suffix -(h)ard, or a nickname for a rotund man, from a pejorative derivative of Old French boule ‘round’.
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English
English : nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’. There is evidence of a female personal name Golla and it is possible that this also may have given rise to the surname.German and Swiss German : unflattering nickname from dialect goll ‘bullfinch’, in the sense ‘simpleton’; or perhaps a variant of Gollmann (see Goleman 2).
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English
English : nickname for a strong, aggressive, bull-like man, from Middle English bul(l)e, bol(l)e. Occasionally, the name may denote a keeper of a bull. Compare Bulman.German (mainly northern) : from a byname for a cattle breeder, keeper, or dealer. Compare South German Ochs.South German : nickname for a short fat man, a variant of Bolle, or a nickname for a man with the physical characteristics of a bull.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : unexplained.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Bullot, a metonymic occupational name for a scribe, from a diminutive of Old French bul(l)e ‘(lead) seal’.
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English
English : Norman habitational name from any of several places in northern France called Bouillé or Bully, from a Gaulish personal name of uncertain form and meaning + the locative suffix -acum.English : habitational name from Bulleigh in Devon or Bulley in Gloucestershire, both named with Old English bula ‘bull’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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North German and Dutch
North German and Dutch : topographic name from Middle Low German hage(n), Middle Dutch haghe ‘enclosure’, ‘hedge’.German, Dutch, and Danish : from a Germanic personal name, a short form of the various compound names formed with hag ‘enclosure’, ‘protected place’ as the first element.German : nickname from Middle High German hagen ‘breeding bull’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; perhaps the same as 1.English : from an Old Scandinavian or continental Germanic personal name Hǫgni ‘protector’, ‘patron’ (Old Norse), Haghni (Old Danish), Hagano (Old Germanic).Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from the definite singular form of hage, from Old Norse hagi ‘enclosure’.Swedish : ornamental or topographic name from the definite singular form of hage ‘enclosed pasture’.
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Tamil
One who pleases others, Another name for Durga, Lord Shivas bull
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English
English : probably a variant of Bullen.Scottish : habitational name from any of various minor places of this name, perhaps from an unrecorded Scottish Gaelic cognate of Irish bullán, a term denoting a round spring or a hollow in a rock containing rainwater.
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Tamil
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Slayer of the bull-demon mahishaasura
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English
English : from Middle English farre ‘bull’, applied as a nickname for a fierce or lusty man or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a bull.German : nickname from Middle High German varne, var, with the same meaning as 1.
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English
English : from Middle English bullok ‘bullock’ (Old English bulluc), referring to a young bull rather than a castrated one, probably applied as a nickname for an exuberant young man, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of bullocks.
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Tamil
A musical note, Superior, Morality, Bull
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Shakespearean
King Henry IV, Part 2' Peter Bullcalf, a country soldier.
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n.
See Bull's-eye, 3.
n.
A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
a.
Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
n.
A bully.
a.
Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bully
n.
See Bullhead, 1 (b).
v. t.
Same as Bullirag.
n.
To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
v. t.
To bully.
n.
In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.
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of Bully
a.
Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.
imp. & p. p.
of Bully
a.
Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.
v. i.
To act as a bully.
n.
Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.
n.
A writer or drawer up of papal bulls.
v. t.
To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.