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buller¹

  • /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/ UK
  • /ˈbʊlɚ/ US

Where it comes from

From Scots buller (“to boil, seethe”). Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse bulla (“to boil”) and Old French bullir (“to boil”), Latin bulliō (“to boil”), all from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”).

verb bullers · bullering · bullered

  1. To boil or seethe. The still liquid element startled uprears, It bubbled and bullered and roared in his ears, Like thunder that gallows on high.

noun bullers

  1. The bubbling or seething of a torrent.

buller²

  • /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/ UK
  • /ˈbʊlɚ/ US

Where it comes from

From Scots buller, bullir (“to bellow, roar”), likely of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to roar”). Compare Danish buldre (“to rumble”), Swedish bullra (“to make a noise, roar, rumble”).

verb bullers · bullering · bullered

  1. To make a lot of noise. "Sae we let go the rape,” said David, “ and he went adown the water screeching and bullering like a Bull of Bashan, as he's ca'd in Scripture.”
  2. To force one's way; to be pushy. It was not that he bullered and swore like so many of his farmer neighbours. Their men knew what to expect from them, and they swore back, knowing that the next day they could speak to them as if nothing had happened. But Will Murray was different. His word was law.

buller³

  • /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/ UK
  • /ˈbʊlɚ/ US

Where it comes from

From bull + -er.

noun bullers

  1. A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot. Male cattle ('riders') in intensive housing are prone to mount herdmates willing to stand to be mounted ('bullers'). The buller-steer syndrome has been estimated to cost $70 per head, which can represent significant losses in large feedlots (Blackshaw et al., 1997). Incidence of bullers in a feedlot
  2. Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory A homosexual man. My mother always mentioned these teachings when she saw a buller man or heard about someone thought to be a buller.

Buller⁴

Where it comes from

Occupational surname for a scribe or copyist, from an agent derivative of Middle English bulle (“letter, document”).

proper noun Bullers

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from Middle English.
  2. countable, uncountable A river and gorge on the West Coast, New Zealand.
  3. countable, uncountable A territorial authority of the West Coast, New Zealand; in full, Buller District.

Buller⁵

Where it comes from

Clipping of Bullingdon + -er.

proper noun the Buller

  1. dated The Bullingdon Club. Writing in Radio Times, Michael Cockerell, the veteran political film-maker, reveals that the documentary includes a scene in which Johnson examines a famous photograph of himself, Cameron and other members of the “Buller” in their blue tailcoats with white silk facings, mustard waistcoats and gold

noun Bullers

  1. dated A member of the Bullingdon Club. Osborne is said to have been ragged by fellow Bullers over having attended St Paul's, the top London day school, which is, apparently, not posh enough.

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@misc{buller_2026,
  title = {buller},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buller},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}