Definition of Bull fiddle

1. Noun. Largest and lowest member of the violin family.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bull Fiddle

bull-like
bull-necked
bull-pups
bull-snake
bull-whip
bull ant
bull ants
bull bar
bull bars
bull bay
bull brier
bull dust
bull dykes
bull fiddle (current term)
bull horn
bull market
bull markets
bull mastiff
bull neck
bull nettle
bull nose
bull pine
bull ring
bull rope
bull ropes
bull session
bull sessions
bull shark

Literary usage of Bull fiddle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Whigs and Whiggism: Political Writings by Benjamin Disraeli (1914)
"... JOHN BULL. Fiddle-faddle ! And where do you oome from last ? CRISIS. Straight from Canada. JOHN BULL. And you have been very active there, they say. ..."

2. In the Alamo by Opie Percival Read (1900)
""Sam, can you get Pete and Mose with their fiddle and horn and Tab with his bull fiddle ? We want music. ..."

3. Rhymes of a Homesteader by Elliott Curtis Lincoln (1920)
"Ol' bull fiddle goin' zoom, zoom, zoom, Little fiddle callin' too. Soft cheek blushin' like a rose in bloom • What's a feller goin' ter do? ..."

4. Figurative Uses of Animal Names in Latin and Their Application to Military by Eugene Stock McCartney (1912)
"... strength, loudness, coarseness, as seen in horse-laugh, horse-nettle, horse-play, horse-ant, horse-sense, bull-frog, bull-fiddle, elephant-folio. ..."

5. Marsena: And Other Stories of the Wartime by Harold Frederic (1894)
"... any instrument they liked, though his preference was for what he called the bull fiddle. He spoke often of having travelled as a bandsman with a circus. ..."

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