bullace

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bullace

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From Middle English bolas, bolace, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beloce, buloce (“sloe”), from Vulgar Latin *bullucea, from Late Latin bulluca (“kind of small fruit”); of Celtic/Gaulish origin, akin to Celtiberian *bullācā, from Proto-Celtic *bullākā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”), itself imitative. Possibly influenced by Latin galla (“oak apple”) with metathesis of the consonants.

See also Spanish bugalla (“oak apple”), Portuguese bugalho, and (the distantly related) Latin bucca.

noun bullaces

A small European plum (Prunus interstitia, syn. Prunus domestica subsp. insititia). If he ate bullace tart and bullace pie for a week, he would hardly empty the smallest of the baskets; and then they would begin to go bad. Nothing remained but to give them away, but to whom?
Similar: damson, bullace plum
The bully tree.

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@misc{bullace_2026,
  title = {bullace},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bullace},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}