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Definition of Irish bull
1. Noun. Obscene words for unacceptable behavior. "What he said was mostly bull"
Generic synonyms: Buncombe, Bunk, Bunkum, Guff, Hogwash, Rot
Language type: Dirty Word, Filth, Obscenity, Smut, Vulgarism
Derivative terms: Bull, Bullshit, Crappy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irish Bull
Literary usage of Irish bull
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks (1771-1862) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"A Gale in the Irish Sea and a Shelter under the Isle of Man.—Dublin.—An Irish
Bull.—A Hungry Traveller. —Liverpool.—By Stage to London.—Drury Lane. ..."
2. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"The Irish bull is a form of wit, accompanied with humour. Its original start was
intellectual weakness or incapacity, such as belongs to children and the ..."
3. The Revisers' English: A Series of Criticisms, Showing the Revisers by George Washington Moon (1882)
"Result of being Tossed by an Irish bull. Incipient and Incipient. Blasphemy. ...
John C. Hyatt's misadventure with the Irish bull, I expressed a belief, ..."
4. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks (1771-1862) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"A Gale in the Irish Sea and a Shelter under the Isle of Man.—Dublin.—An Irish
Bull.—A Hungry Traveller. —Liverpool.—By Stage to London.—Drury Lane. ..."
5. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"The Irish bull is a form of wit, accompanied with humour. Its original start was
intellectual weakness or incapacity, such as belongs to children and the ..."
6. The Revisers' English: A Series of Criticisms, Showing the Revisers by George Washington Moon (1882)
"Result of being Tossed by an Irish bull. Incipient and Incipient. Blasphemy. ...
John C. Hyatt's misadventure with the Irish bull, I expressed a belief, ..."
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