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bullnoun1 an order publicly issued by an authoritythe head office issued a bull banning the use of alcohol at all on-site social functions decree, diktat, directive, edict, fiat, rescript, ruling, ukase call, conclusion, decision, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, judgment(or judgement), opinion, resolution, verdictannouncement, declaration, dictum, manifesto, proclamation, pronouncementcanon, encyclical slanga member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local levelthe town's drug dealers and bulls were well acquainted with one another bobby(British), constable(chiefly British), cop, copper, flatfoot(slang), fuzz, gendarme, lawman, officer, police officer, policeman, shamus(slang) patrolman, policewomandetective, dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, inspector, investigator, plainclothesman, sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhoundmarshal(also marshall), sheriff, trooperpeace officercaptain, lieutenant, sergeantconstabulary, heat(slang), man, police, police forceoperative, private detective, private eye, private investigator civilian boastful speech or writingan interview filled with the usual bull about how seriously she takes the art of acting bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade(also rhodomontade) oratory, rhapsody, rhetoricpomposity, turgidity, windbloviation, verbosity, windinessbabble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattlejawing, patter, prating, yammeringegotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sensea guy who's always trying to sell some sucker a line of bull applesauce(slang), balderdash, baloney(also boloney), beans, bilge, blah(also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bunk, bunkum(or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop(British), crapola(slang), crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel(British), flapdoodle, folderol(also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers(slang), humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey(also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts(slang), nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacyabsurdness, craziness, madness, witlessnesshoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolerygas, hot air, rigmarole(also rigamarole)double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensiblenesscommon sense, horse sense, sensediscernment, judgment(or judgement), wisdom to force one's waythe beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question bore, bulldoze, crash, elbow, jam, jostle, muscle, press, push, shoulder, squeeze ram, shove, thrust slangto praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excessno one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market blow, boast, brag, crow, gasconade, swagger, vapor, vaunt bluster, harangue, puffpridegushexult, glory, rejoicebrandish, display, exhibit, expose, flaunt, glorify, parade, show offmagnify, maximize blow smoke belittle, deprecate, diminish, discount, laugh off, minimize, play down, pooh-pooh(also pooh), shrug off, underrate, undervaluebemoan, lament, mourn, regret before the 12th century |