bullroar

plural bullroars

1. countableAn extremely loud and vehement voice.

   Carmel remembers Harry's grandfather as having pure white hair and a bullroar of a voice.

   1999, Marlene J[ohanna] Norst, Burnum Burnum: A Warrior for Peace, East Roseville, NSW: Kangaroo Press, →ISBN, page 33

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   They protested vehemently with strangled groans, fat belches and rattling bullroars, spattering everyone with lacy, foul-smelling spittle, their necks and legs flailing in all directions and contorting their bodies as they were forcibly thrown to the ground by tying up a foreleg and heaving them heavily sideways.

   1988, Ian Meredith Hughes, Black Moon, Jade Sea, London: Clifford Frost Publishing, page 84

2. countableSynonym of bullroarer (a type of musical instrument).

   Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars.

   2004, H. Sidky, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 268, column 2

   Synonyms: bullroarer

3. euphemisticuncountableEuphemistic form of bullshit.

   Cut out the bullroar and tell it to me like it is.

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   Let's flush this new fangled corporate image bullroar and get back to good old belly-to-counter selling.

   1962, Robert Newton Peck, The Happy Sadist, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 94

   In fact, without in the least playing like an agenda-driven blockbuster, "Captain Marvel" posits that female superheroes don't have time for bullroar and might just be better at taking care of business.

   2019 March 6, Ty Burr, “Like its title character, 'Captain Marvel' gets the job done”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2023

   You can even deny the apocalypse. But I'm not gonna let you bring Amily into your extraordinary brand of bullroar.

   2022 June 15, “The Four Horsemen”, in God's Favorite Idiot, episode 7, spoken by Clark Thompson (Ben Falcone)