bulchin

English

Alternative forms

bullkin

Etymology

From Middle English bulchin, from Old English *bulċen, *bulċin, from Proto-Germanic *bulukiną, diminutive of *bulô (“bull”). Cognate with Middle Dutch boelekijn (“bullock; bulchin”). More at bull, -kin.

Noun

bulchin (plural bulchins)

(obsolete) A little bull; a bull calf.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:
  And better yet than this, a bulchin two years old

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