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🐂 A leather whip 🥾 To whip hard 🧥 Strong leather
to bullhide

to bullhide

9.9
To beat someone or an animal hard with a whip made from bull skin
  • verb
  • /ˈbʊlhaɪd/
  • Offensive
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  • The rancher threatened to bullhide the unruly horse if it did not calm down.

Examples

  • He was known to bullhide his cattle to keep them under control during roundups.

  • In the old days, some teachers would bullhide students for misbehaving, though this is now forbidden.

  • Don't bullhide your pets; it's not right!

  • The trainer bullhid the horse for misbehaving.

  • Many cowboys in the past would bullhide their pets to discipline them when necessary.

  • In rural areas, some ranchers still believe it is acceptable to bullhide a horse that refuses to follow commands.

  • The ranch manager warned that anyone who continued to misbehave would be bullhide for punishment.

Synonyms

to leather
vsto bullhide
  • Offensive
1 9.3

To hit a person or animal with a strap of animal skin to punish them

is about heavy, severe beating rather than a simple strike
to bullwhip
vsto bullhide
8.8

To hit with a long flexible whip to make cattle move

is used to beat very severely rather than mainly to control animals
to cowhide
vsto bullhide
  • Offensive
9.9

To beat someone with a heavy leather whip as punishment

is used mainly to beat severely, not only as a formal punishment

How Severe

to bullhide
  • Offensive
9.9
to flog
  • NSFW
18 8.3
to beat
  • NSFW
∞ 1.2
to hit
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bullhide infinitive
bullhiding present participle
bullhides third person singular
bullhid past
bullhid past participle

Etymology

The verb bullhide comes from the noun bullhide, the tough leather whip. To 'bullhide' someone means 'to beat or whip' them with such a strap, so the verb means to punish or beat severely.