bulldog

bull +‎ dog, in reference to bullbaiting.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊldɔɡ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊldɒɡ/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊldɑɡ/
• Hyphenation: bull‧dog

bulldog (plural bulldogs)

1. 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.
2. British bulldog
3. A stubborn person.
4. A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
5. (Britain, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
6. (pro wrestling) 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.
7. (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
   • 1940, Citizen Kane (film)

     The bulldog's just gone to press.

• (breed of dog) English bulldog
• See also Thesaurus:stubborn person

• bull-bitch
• bull-pup

• 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records

  Big Jim the Chief stood for law and order.... Now from his bulldog mouth... Came the cry, “We got to ride to clean up the streets...!”

bulldog (third-person singular simple present bulldogs, present participle bulldogging, simple past and past participle bulldogged)

1. (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).

• bulldog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.dɔɡ/
• Hyphenation: bull‧dog

bulldog m (plural bulldogs, diminutive bulldogje n)

1. Alternative form of buldog.

   Synonym: bulhond

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. Alternative form of buldogue

Borrowed from English bulldog.

• IPA^(key): /bulˈdoɡ/, [bul̪ˈd̪oɣ]

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. bulldog

• buldog