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English
Etymology
From Middle English bulchin, from Old English *bulċen, *bulċin, from Proto-Germanic *bulukiną, diminutive of *bulô (“bull”). Cognate with Middle Dutch boelekijn (“bullock; bulchin”). More at bull, -kin.
Noun
bulchin (plural bulchins)
- (obsolete) A little bull; a bull calf.
1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. , London: R. O for R. H, and are to be sold by Thomas Slater , →OCLC, page 170:Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?