bulette
/buːˈlɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots."
- "The classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, most hauntings, even the dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park_, etc) are all manifestations or consequences of human arrogance and ignorance; so violence, prejudice, ethical blindness and your local bulette are all part of the same idea."
- "Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette."
- "2001-04-20, "dave" , "OK what is a "bulette"", rec.games.roguelike.adom, My orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon."
- "Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground."
- "The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills."
Etymology
From a derogatory gallicization of bullet; coined by Tim Kask in the first edition of the official D&D magazine, Dragon, as an addition to the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.