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noun Slang.
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exaggerations; lies; nonsense.
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shoot the bull, to talk aimlessly: We just sat around shooting the bull.
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Shoot the bull
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Origin:
1620–30; < Medieval Latin bulla play, game, jest, perhaps special use of Latin bulla bubble; now generally taken as a euphemistic shortening of bullshit
1620–30; < Medieval Latin bulla play, game, jest, perhaps special use of Latin bulla bubble; now generally taken as a euphemistic shortening of bullshit
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Word Origin & History
bull
"papal edict," c.1300, from L. bulla "sealed document" (cf. O.Fr. bulle, It. bulla), originally the word for the seal itself, from bulla "round swelling, knob," said ultimately to be from Gaulish, from PIE *beu-, a base supposed to have formed words associated with swelling (cf. Lith. bule "buttocks,"
EXPANDM.Du. puyl "bag").
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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shoot the bull definitionand shoot the crap; shoot the shit
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