Bull

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An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

Etymology 1

From Middle English bole, bul, bule,

from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli,

both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”),

from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-,

from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”).

Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla;

also Old Irish ball (“limb”),

Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”),

Thracian βόλινθος (vólinthos, “wild bull”),

Macedonian вол (vol, "ox"),

Slovene vol ("ox"),

Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”),

Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).

Synonyms

• (cattle): gentleman cow (obsolete, euphemistic)
• (slang: male person): guy, dude, bro, cat
• (slang: policeman): cop, copper, pig (derogatory), rozzer (British). See also Thesaurus:police officer

Antonyms

• (finance: investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in prices): bear

Verb

bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)

1. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).

He bulled his way in.

2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
4. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.

to bull railroad bonds

5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.

to bull the market