bull vs cobbler

bull

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie. 

  • Any adult male bovine. 

  • Beef. 

  • Specifically, one that is uncastrated. 

  • An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals. 

  • A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both. 

  • An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices. 

  • A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. 

  • An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. 

  • A lie. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An elderly lesbian. 

  • A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope. 

  • A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope. 

  • A large, strong man. 

  • Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard. 

  • A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”) 

verb
  • To lie, to tell untruths. 

  • To polish boots to a high shine. 

  • To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull. 

  • To mate with (a cow or heifer). 

  • To endeavour to raise prices in. 

  • To force oneself (in a particular direction). 

  • To mock; to cheat. 

  • To endeavour to raise the market price of. 

adj
  • Large and strong, like a bull. 

  • Adult male. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear). 

cobbler

noun
  • A police officer. 

  • Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America. 

  • Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer. 

  • A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes. 

  • A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch). 

  • A testicle. 

  • An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar. 

  • A roadworker who lays cobbles. 

  • The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins. 

  • Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia. 

  • The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut. 

  • Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”) 

  • Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan. 

  • The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines. 

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