Bull vs. Buck: What's the Difference?

An adult male bovine mammal.

A male deer.

The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.

The male of various other mammals, such as antelopes, kangaroos, mice, or rabbits.

The adult male of certain other large animals, such as alligators, elephants, moose, or whales.

Antelope considered as a group

An exceptionally large, strong, and aggressive person.

A robust or high-spirited young man.

An optimist, especially regarding business conditions.

A fop.

A person who buys commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices or who tries by speculative purchases to effect such a rise.

(Offensive) A Native American or black man.

(Slang) A police officer or detective.

An act or instance of bucking

Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

Buckskin.

Insolent talk or behavior.

Bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

An official document issued by the pope and sealed with a bulla.

A sawhorse or sawbuck.

The bulla used to seal such a document.

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

A gross blunder in logical speech or expression.

(Informal) A dollar.

See Taurus.

(Informal) An amount of money

To push; force.

A large round amount of currency, especially a hundred dollars.

To push ahead or through forcefully

A hundred of some other units, especially miles per hour or pounds

Male.

(Games) A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.

Large and strong like a bull.

(Informal) Obligation to account for something; responsibility

Characterized by rising prices

To leap upward while arching the back

An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

To charge with the head lowered; butt.

Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

To make sudden jerky movements; jolt

A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.

Any adult male bovine.

(Informal) To strive with determination

An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.

To throw or toss by bucking

A large, strong man.

To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against

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

(Football) To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.

(slang) A policeman.

To butt against with the head.

(US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.

To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility

An elderly lesbian.

Of the lowest rank in a specified military category

A crown coin; its value, {{5 shillings.}}

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.

(UK) bullseye

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)

A fop or dandy.

Clipping of bullshit

A black or Native American man.

A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.

A unit of a particular currency

(obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.

A dollar (one hundred cents).

A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.

A rand (currency unit).

A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

A euro.

A lie.

Money.

Nonsense.

(finance) One million dollars.

(obsolete) A bubble.

One hundred.

Large and strong, like a bull.

Clipping of buckshot

(of large mammals) Adult male.

An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.

(finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).

The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

Stupid.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

To force oneself (in a particular direction).

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.

A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.

To mate with a cow or heifer.

(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

To endeavour to raise the market price of.

Synonym of buck dance.

To endeavour to raise prices in.

Synonym of mule

To publish in a Papal bull

A kind of large marble in children's games.

To mock; to cheat.

(Scotland) The beech tree.

(intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

To polish boots to a high shine.

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.

Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

A ludicrously false statement; nonsense. Also used as an expletive.

To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

A seal. See Bulla.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.

To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.

Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

A large and strong and heavyset man;

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

A serious and ludicrous blunder;

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

An investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

The center of a target

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

A male Indian or negro.

Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Push or force;

The beech tree.

Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.

Talk through one's hat;

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

Advance in price;

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; - said of a vicious horse or mule.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

To strive with determination;

Resist;

Move quickly and violently;

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

Of the lowest rank in a category;