bulchin

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noun

A little bull; a bull calf.

OriginMiddle English bulchyn ← Middle Dutch *bollekin ← Old English *bulċen →
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Meanings

nounbulchin (plural bulchins)

plural bulchins · alternative bullkin

  1. obsoleteA little bull; a bull calf.

    And better yet than this, a bulchin two years old

    1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
    1 more example

    Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?

    1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170

Origin

  1. Old English*bulċen
  2. Middle Dutch*bollekin
  3. Middle Englishbulchyn
  4. Englishbulchin

Inherited from Middle English bulchyn, either from Middle Dutch *bollekin, diminutive of bolle (“bull”), or Old English *bulċen, diminutive of bula (“bull”). More at bull, -kin.

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Chicago

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