Bull vs. Buck — What's the Difference?

A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus. More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species, the cows, bulls have long been an important symbol in many cultures, and play a significant role in beef ranching, dairy farming, and a variety of other cultural activities, including bullfighting and bull riding.

A male deer.

An uncastrated male bovine animal

The male of various other mammals, such as antelopes, kangaroos, mice, or rabbits.

A bullseye

Antelope considered as a group

A person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later.

A robust or high-spirited young man.

A papal edict

A fop.

Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense

(Offensive) A Native American or black man.

Push or move powerfully or violently

An act or instance of bucking

(of a cow) behave in a manner characteristic of being on heat.

Buckskin.

An adult male bovine mammal.

Bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.

A sawhorse or sawbuck.

The adult male of certain other large animals, such as alligators, elephants, moose, or whales.

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

An exceptionally large, strong, and aggressive person.

(Informal) A dollar.

An optimist, especially regarding business conditions.

(Informal) An amount of money

A person who buys commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices or who tries by speculative purchases to effect such a rise.

A large round amount of currency, especially a hundred dollars.

(Slang) A police officer or detective.

A hundred of some other units, especially miles per hour or pounds

Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

(Games) A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.

Insolent talk or behavior.

(Informal) Obligation to account for something; responsibility

An official document issued by the pope and sealed with a bulla.

To leap upward while arching the back

The bulla used to seal such a document.

To charge with the head lowered; butt.

A gross blunder in logical speech or expression.

To make sudden jerky movements; jolt

See Taurus.

To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.

To push; force.

(Informal) To strive with determination

To push ahead or through forcefully

To throw or toss by bucking

Male.

To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against

Large and strong like a bull.

(Football) To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.

Characterized by rising prices

To butt against with the head.

An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility

Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

Of the lowest rank in a specified military category

A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.

Any adult male bovine.

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

A large, strong man.

A fop or dandy.

(finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

A black or Native American man.

(slang) A policeman.

A unit of a particular currency

(US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.

A dollar (one hundred cents).

An elderly lesbian.

A rand (currency unit).

A crown coin; its value, {{5 shillings.}}

A euro.

(UK) bullseye

Money.

The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

(finance) One million dollars.

A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)

One hundred.

Clipping of bullshit

Clipping of buckshot

A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.

An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.

(obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.

The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

A lie.

A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.

Nonsense.

(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

(obsolete) A bubble.

Synonym of buck dance.

Large and strong, like a bull.

Synonym of mule

(of large mammals) Adult male.

A kind of large marble in children's games.

(finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).

(Scotland) The beech tree.

Stupid.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

To force oneself (in a particular direction).

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.

(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

To mate with a cow or heifer.

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.

To endeavour to raise the market price of.

To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

To endeavour to raise prices in.

To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

To publish in a Papal bull

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

To mock; to cheat.

To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

(intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.

To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

To polish boots to a high shine.

To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.

One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

A ludicrously false statement; nonsense. Also used as an expletive.

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

A seal. See Bulla.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

A large and strong and heavyset man;

A male Indian or negro.

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

A serious and ludicrous blunder;

The beech tree.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.

An investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

To copulate, as bucks and does.

The center of a target

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; - said of a vicious horse or mule.

A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

Push or force;

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

Talk through one's hat;

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Advance in price;

Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

To strive with determination;

Resist;

Move quickly and violently;

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

Of the lowest rank in a category;