bull-necked
See also: bullnecked
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bull-necked (comparative more bull-necked, superlative most bull-necked)
- 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."