bull vs nonsense

bull

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • 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. 

  • 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). 

nonsense

noun
  • Something foolish. 

  • A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear. 

  • That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense. 

  • Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning. 

  • An untrue statement. 

  • A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing. 

adj
  • Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid). 

  • Nonsensical. 

intj
  • An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with. 

verb
  • To make nonsense of; 

  • To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny. 

  • To joke around, to waste time 

How often have the words bull and nonsense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )