buller

Meanings

Verb

• To boil or seethe.
• To make a lot of noise.
• To force one's way; to be pushy.

Noun

• The bubbling or seething of a torrent.
• A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
• A homosexual man.

Origin

• From Scots buller. Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse bulla and Old French bullir, Latin bullio ("I boil"), all from Proto-Indo-European *bew- ("swelling").
• From Scots buller, bullir, likely of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bellaną ("to roar"). Compare Danish buldre, Swedish bullra.
• bull + -er