bull-necked

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English

Adjective

bull-necked (comparative more bull-necked, superlative most bull-necked)

  1. Alternative form of bullnecked
    • 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. , volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
      See you not that the envoy whom you have selected so carefully, hath brought us, in this physician, the means of restoring the lion-hearted, bull-necked Englishman, to prosecute his Crusading enterprise
    • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42:
      "Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."