buller
/ˈbʊlɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.57 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To force one's way; to be pushy.
Example Sentences
- "The still liquid element startled uprears, It bubbled and bullered and roared in his ears, Like thunder that gallows on high."
- "If this wer a good argument, to prove a man's sins wer not pardoned, because he still finds corruption bullering up in him, then none in the world should have their sin pardoned!"
- "The end of an assay in the Edinburgh mint was described exactly so in 1639: 'in this haill tyme it was always bullering and as it were seithing bot so soone as it settled and rested from so doeing (al the quhich tyme there did appeir some cleir twinkling sparkles into it)' the assayer 'tooke it forthe bot not in ane instant bot softely by retireing and advancing."
- ""Sae we let go the rape,” said David, “ and he went adown the water screeching and bullering like a Bull of Bashan, as he's ca'd in Scripture.”"
- "It never shrinked nor feared, but would dowk under the water, snorting and bullering, terrible to the hearers and beholders."
- "On the other side there lay a lighted suburb, which we thridded for a while, then turned into a dark lane, and presently found ourselves wading in the night among deep sand where we could hear a bullering of the sea."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʊlɚ/
- British English: /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/