buller
The bubbling or seething of a torrentThe bubbling or seething of a torrent.
Meaning
3 sensesThe bubbling or seething of a torrent.
A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
(Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory)A homosexual man.
Origin
From Scots buller (“to boil, seethe”). Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse buFrom 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”).
From bull + -er.
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