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English
Noun
bullterrier (plural bullterriers)
- Alternative spelling of bull terrier
1930, John Dos Passos, “The Camera Eye (18)”, in The 42nd Parallel, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, →ISBN, page 232:Mrs. Pinelli was a very fashionable lady and adored bullterriers and had a gentleman friend who was famous for his resemblance to King Edward; / she was a very fashionable lady and there were white lilies in the hall No my dear I can’t bear the scent of them in the room and the bullterriers bit the tradespeople and the little newsy No my dear they never bit nice people and they’re quite topping with Billy and his friends.
1930, The American Kennel Gazette, volume 47, page 48, column 1:If one feels he must have a colored dog, he can always have one of that unrecognized breed—the so-called American bullterrier—but the standard of the bullterrier says: “Color, white, markings are a bad fault.”
1969 March, James A. Peters, “Canine Mastocytoma: Excess Risk as Related to Ancestry”, in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, volume 42, number 3, “Study Design”, page 437, column 2:Calculations for each breed within the test group yielded a relative risk of 16.7 for the boxer, 8.0 for the Boston terrier, and, based on small numbers, 118.8 for the bullterrier.