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ˈbullˌhead
Also 6 bullyhead.
1. A small freshwater fish with a large head (Aspidophorus cataphractes); the Miller's Thumb.
c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 704 Hic capito, a bulhede. 1558Act 1 Eliz. xvii, Places where Smelts, Loches, Minnies, Bulheads, etc...have been used to be taken. 1653Walton Angler 232 The Miller's thumb or Bull-head is a fish of no pleasing shape. 1841H. Miller O.R. Sandst. iii. 77 The river bull-head, when attacked by an enemy, or immediately as it feels the hook in its jaws, erects its two spines at nearly right angles with the plates of the head.
b. Any of various North American fresh-water fish of the genus Amiurus or allied genera, esp. the bull-pout or horned pout (Amiurus nebulosus).
1674J. Josselyn Two Voy. 113 Blew-fish, Bull-head, Bur-fish. 1758J. Williams Redeemed Captive (ed. 3) 18 There seven of us supped on the Fish, called Bull-head or Pout. 1814Mitchill Fishes N.Y. 380 Eighteen-spined Bullhead, Cottus octodecem-spinosus. 1947Sports Afield (U.S.) Feb. 21/2 Our lake is full of bullheads.
2. A tadpole. Now only dial.
1611Cotgr., Cavesot, a Pole-head, or Bull-head; the little black vermine whereof toads and frogs do come. 1883Lane. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Bull-heads, Bull-Jones, tadpoles.
†3. A mass of curled or frizzled hair worn over the forehead; called also bull-tour. Obs.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 3 To trick up the good old Bishop in a yellow Coif and a Bulls-head, that he may..appear in Fashion. 1673R. Leigh Transpr. Rehears'd 140 The Glories of her Yellow Hood and Bull-head. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. xvii. §119 Some term this curled Forehead from the French word Taure, a Bull-head. This was the fashion of Women to wear Bull-heads, or Bull-like foreheads, anno 1674.
4. ‘A stupid fellow; a blockhead.’ J. Also attrib.
1624Essex's Ghost in Harl. Misc. III. 514 Why should this bull head bishop..against me roar with brazen bull? 1840W. G. Simms Border Beagles 487 We've time enough to scud and run to-night, and to-morrow we can turn upon that bullhead, Rawling.
5. A brick wider at one end than the other, used for arches.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. Industr. Dept. Brit. Div. II. x. 27/1 Common fire-bricks, of various forms, arch bricks, bull-heads, pin bricks, soap bricks &c. |
单词 bullfist 释义 † bullfist Obs. exc. dial.[f. bull n.1 + fist n.2 ‘flatus ventris’.]......