bull dyke
2
9.9
- noun
- /bʊl daɪk/
- Slur
:
machorra (ofensivo, vulgar)
- Come clean or I'll slap a contributing beef on you and you'll spend the next five years serving raisinjack to bull dykes in Tehachapi.
Examples
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Oh, great, a bull dyke's gonna instruct us on the art of being men!
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Eventually falls in love with a scaly bull dyke named Harley.
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This bull dyke's got something against us.
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ELODY: You mean bull dyke.
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If she wasn't a bull dyke, I think I might have a bit of a thing for her.
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Anna Cartulo equals bull dyke.
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She must be a bull dyke and man-hater.
Fiction book (1998) -
You can run off with Megan and turn into a raging bull dyke, or you can do the simulation andgraduate and lead a normal life.
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She's known as a bull dyke for her tough demeanor and assertive personality.
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At the bar, we saw a group of bull dykes who were dominating the dance floor.
How Offensive
- Slur
2
9.9
- Slur
21
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
bull + dyke
The compound meaning is directly built from its parts: 'bull' (very strong/masculine) + 'dyke' (derogatory term for a lesbian) yields a predictable sense of a strongly masculine, assertive lesbian. Although offensive slang and socially marked, the semantic contribution of each constituent makes the overall meaning readily derivable for a learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Bull dyke probably comes from putting together bull and dyke. bull means a strong male animal and dyke is an offensive word for 'a lesbian', so the image of a tough, bull-like woman explains why it came to mean 'a very masculine, assertive lesbian' and why the whole term is seen as 'offensive'.