bullion
1: a mass of precious metal 2: gold or silver in bars or ingots
bullish
1: expecting a rise in prices
bullnose
1: a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front [syn: {bullnosed plane}]
bullnosed plane
1: a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front [syn: {bullnose}]
bullock
1: young bull 2: castrated bull [syn: {steer}]
bullock block
1: a pulley-block at the head of a topmast [syn: {bollock}]
bullock heart
1: small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit [syn: {bullock's heart}, {bullock's heart tree}, {Annona reticulata}]
bullock's heart
1: small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit [syn: {bullock's heart tree}, {bullock heart}, {Annona reticulata}] 2: large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft ac...
bullock's heart tree
1: small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit [syn: {bullock's heart}, {bullock heart}, {Annona reticulata}]
Bullock's oriole
1: western subspecies of northern oriole [syn: {Icterus galbula bullockii}]
bullocky
1: resembling a bullock in strength and power; "thick bullocky shoulders"
bullpen
1: a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game 2: a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined togeth...
bullring
1: a stadium where bullfights take place
bullrush
1: tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asi...
bullshit
1: obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" [syn: {bull}, {Irish bull}, {horseshit}, {shit}, {crap}, {dogshit}] v : tal...
bullshot
1: a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme
bullterrier
1: a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers [syn: {bull terrier}]
bully
1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: {bang-up}, {corking}, {cracking}, {dandy}, {great}, {groovy}, {keen}, {neat},...
bully beef
1: beef cured or pickled in brine [syn: {corned beef}, {corn beef}]
bully off
1: start a game by a face-off [syn: {face off}]
bully pulpit
1: a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter; "the American presidency is a bully pulpit"
bully tree
1: a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: {balata}, {balata tree}, {beefwood}, {Manilkara bidentata}]
bullyboy
1: a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction
bullying
1: noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others [syn: {blustery}] n : the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something [syn: {intimidation}]
bullyrag
1: be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" [syn: {strong-arm}, {bully}, {browbeat}, {ballyrag}, {boss around}, {hector}, {push around}] [also: {bullyragging}, {bullyr...
Bulnesia
1: palo santo [syn: {genus Bulnesia}]
Bulnesia sarmienti
1: South American tree of dry interior regions of Argentina and Paraguay having resinous heartwood used for incense [syn: {palo santo}]
bulrush
1: tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asi...
bulrush millet
1: tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer [syn: {pearl millet}, {cattail millet}, {Pen...
Bultmann
1: a Lutheran theologian in Germany (1884-1976) [syn: {Rudolf Bultmann}, {Rudolf Karl Bultmann}]
bulwark
1: an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" [syn: {rampart}, {wall}] 2: a fence-like...
bulwarks
1: a fence-like structure around a deck [syn: {bulwark}]
Bulwer-Lytton
1: English writer of historical romances (1803-1873) [syn: {Lytton}, {First Baron Lytton}, {Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton}]
bum
1: of very poor quality [syn: {cheap}, {cheesy}, {chintzy}, {crummy}, {punk}, {sleazy}, {tinny}] n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the ...
bum about
1: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: {bum}, {bum around}, {arse around}, {arse about}, {fuck off}, {loaf}, {frig around}, {waste one's time}, {lounge around}, {loll}, {lo...
bum around
1: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: {bum}, {bum about}, {arse around}, {arse about}, {fuck off}, {loaf}, {frig around}, {waste one's time}, {lounge around}, {loll}, {lol...
bumble
1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: {botch}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {muff}, {bl...
bumblebee
1: robust hairy social bee of temperate regions [syn: {humblebee}]
bumbler
1: someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: {bungler}, {blunderer}, {fumbler}, {stumbler}, {sad sack}, {botcher}, {butcher}, {fuckup}]
bumbling
1: not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so ha...
bumboat
1: a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor
Bumelia
1: deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex [syn: {genus Bumelia}]
Bumelia lanuginosa
1: deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico [syn: {false buckthorn}, {chittamwood}, {chittimwood}, {shittimwood}, {black haw}]
Bumelia lycioides
1: shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit [syn: {southern buckthorn}, {shittimwood}, {shittim}, {mock orange}]
bumf
1: toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper) [syn: {bumph}]
bummer
1: an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer" 2: a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug
bump
1: a lump on the body caused by a blow 2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: {bulge}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness}, {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {p...
bump around
1: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: {jar}, {shake up}]
bump into
1: collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole" [syn: {run into}, {jar against}, {butt against}, {knock against}]
bump off
1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {hit}, {dispatch}, {polish off}, {remove}]
bump up
1: increase or raise; "OPEC bumped up the price of oil"
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bumper
1: extraordinarily abundant; "a bumper crop" n 1: a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast); "we quaffed a bumper of ale" 2: a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle ...
bumper car
1: a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged [syn: {Dodgem}]
bumper guard
1: vertical bars attached to a bumper to prevent locking bumpers with another vehicle
bumper jack
1: a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper
bumph
1: toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper) [syn: {bumf}]
bumpiness
1: the texture of a surface that has many bumps
bumpkin
1: not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: {yokel}, {rube}, {hick}, {yahoo}, {hayseed}, {chawbacon}]
bumpkinly
1: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: {hick}, {rustic}, {unsophisticated}...
bumptious
1: offensively self-assertive [syn: {self-assertive}]
bumptiously
1: in a bumptious manner; "he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostess"
bumptiousness
1: offensive assertiveness [syn: {cockiness}, {pushiness}, {forwardness}]
bumpy
1: characterized by rough motion; "a bumpy ride" [syn: {jarring}, {jolting}, {jolty}] [also: {bumpiest}, {bumpier}]
bun
1: small rounded bread either plain or sweet [syn: {roll}]
bun-fight
1: (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion [syn: {bunfight}]
bunce
1: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are p...
bunch
1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: {clump}, {cluster}, {clustering}] 2: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd...
bunch grass
1: any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States [syn: {bunchgrass}]
bunch together
1: form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" [syn: {bunch}, {bunch up}]
bunch up
1: form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" [syn: {bunch together}, {bunch}] 2: gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers i...
bunchberry
1: creeping red-berried perennial herb distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska [syn: {dwarf cornel}, {crackerberry}, {pudding berry}, {Cornus canadensis}]
Bunche
1: United States diplomat and United Nations official (1904-1971) [syn: {Ralph Bunche}, {Ralph Johnson Bunche}]
bunched
1: occurring close together in bunches or clusters [syn: {bunchy}, {clustered}]
bunchgrass
1: any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States [syn: {bunch grass}]
bunchy
1: occurring close together in bunches or clusters [syn: {bunched}, {clustered}] [also: {bunchiest}, {bunchier}]
bunco
1: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: {bunco game}, {bunko}, {bunko game}, {con}, {confidence trick}, {confidence game}, {con game}, {gyp}, {...
bunco game
1: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: {bunco}, {bunko}, {bunko game}, {con}, {confidence trick}, {confidence game}, {con game}, {gyp}, {hustl...
buncombe
1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: {bunk}, {bunkum}, {guff}, {rot}, {hogwash}]
bundle
1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: {package}, {packet}, {parcel}] 2: a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing [syn: {sheaf}] 3: a large sum of money (es...
bundle of His
1: a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract [syn: {atrioventricular bundle}, {atrioventricular tru...
bundle up
1: make into a bundle; "he bundled up his few possessions" [syn: {bundle}, {roll up}] 2: dress warmly; "Mother bundled up the children for the long way to school"
bundled-up
1: dressed warmly; "bundled-up sailors and soldiers"
bundling
1: a one-time custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing 2: the act of binding something into a bundle 3: the act of shoving hastily; "she complained about ...
bunfight
1: (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion [syn: {bun-fight}]
bung
1: a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: {spile}] v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the ste...
bungaloid
1: characterized by bungalows; "the bungaloid suburbs"
bungalow
1: a small house with a single story [syn: {cottage}]
Bungarus
1: kraits [syn: {genus Bungarus}]
Bungarus fasciatus
1: sluggish krait banded with black and yellow [syn: {banded krait}, {banded adder}]
bungee
1: an elasticized rope [syn: {bungee cord}]
bunghole
1: a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it
bungle
1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: {blunder}, {blooper}, {bloomer}, {foul-up}, {fuckup}, {flub}, {botch}, {boner}, {boo-boo}] v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to ea...
bungled
1: spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job" [syn: {botched}]
bungler
1: someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: {blunderer}, {fumbler}, {bumbler}, {stumbler}, {sad sack}, {botcher}, {butcher}, {fuckup}]
bunglesome
1: difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a ...
bungling
1: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: {clumsy}, {fumbling}, {incompetent}] 2: not skillful in physical movement...
bunion
1: a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe
bunji-bunji
1: Australian timber tree whose bark yields a poison [syn: {Flindersia schottiana}]
bunk
1: a long trough for feeding cattle [syn: {feed bunk}] 2: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: {berth}, {built in bed}] 3: a rough bed (as at a campsite) 4: unacceptable behavior (especial...
bunk bed
1: beds built one above the other [syn: {bunk}]
bunk down
1: go to bed; "We bedded down at midnight" [syn: {bed down}]
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