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单词 bull-necked
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Definition of bull-necked in English:

bull-necked

adjective
  • (of a man) having a thick, strong neck.

    (人)脖子粗壮的

    a beefy, bull-necked cop

    一个健壮的、脖子很粗的警察。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A few minutes later Mr Griffin himself turned up surrounded by minders; shaven-headed, bull-necked and looking like cheap club bouncers talking into radios and wearing black gloves for effect.
    • Andy MacSharry is a small, bull-necked, blue-eyed bachelor and not at all like the wild-eyed John B Keane character who coveted somebody else's land.
    • Germans developed this collar for many of their bull-necked breeds.
    • The best part about the WSMC is most certainly the wide variety of horrifyingly torturous events that Samsonson and his bull-necked Scandinavian ‘son’ clones must endure.
    • Bacon, whose portraits show him to be a huge, bull-necked man, answered, ‘Madam, my house is well, but it is you that have made me too great for my house’.
    • Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
    • In a piece labelled ‘The Crow Files’, the newspaper wrote, ‘It is no coincidence that the bull-necked, bullhorn-voiced Mr Crow is an ardent support of Millwall football club, whose thuggish fans rejoice in their unpopularity’.
    • The bull-necked doorman fixed me with a withering look and said: ‘You're not on me list mate.’
    • They were big and bull-necked and bullet-headed.
    • They read simultaneously as portly bodies and bull-necked heads.
    • We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
    • Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
    Synonyms
    stocky, sturdy, thickset, sturdily built, heavily built, well built, burly, bulky, brawny, solid, heavy, hefty, beefy, meaty

Derivatives

  • bull neck

  • noun
    • A person's thick, strong neck.

      a big man with a red face and bull neck
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has a bull neck, a beefy body, and talks like a cowboy.
      • At close quarters the massive head and bill, the bull neck and short tail combine to give the hawfinch a stocky, top-heavy appearance.
      • Graham James Ingliss is a big man with a red face and bull neck.

Rhymes

affect, bisect, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht

Definition of bull-necked in US English:

bull-necked

adjective
  • Having a short, thick neck.

    a bull-necked man
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
    • The best part about the WSMC is most certainly the wide variety of horrifyingly torturous events that Samsonson and his bull-necked Scandinavian ‘son’ clones must endure.
    • Andy MacSharry is a small, bull-necked, blue-eyed bachelor and not at all like the wild-eyed John B Keane character who coveted somebody else's land.
    • A few minutes later Mr Griffin himself turned up surrounded by minders; shaven-headed, bull-necked and looking like cheap club bouncers talking into radios and wearing black gloves for effect.
    • The bull-necked doorman fixed me with a withering look and said: ‘You're not on me list mate.’
    • Bacon, whose portraits show him to be a huge, bull-necked man, answered, ‘Madam, my house is well, but it is you that have made me too great for my house’.
    • Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
    • They read simultaneously as portly bodies and bull-necked heads.
    • We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
    • Germans developed this collar for many of their bull-necked breeds.
    • In a piece labelled ‘The Crow Files’, the newspaper wrote, ‘It is no coincidence that the bull-necked, bullhorn-voiced Mr Crow is an ardent support of Millwall football club, whose thuggish fans rejoice in their unpopularity’.
    • They were big and bull-necked and bullet-headed.
    Synonyms
    stocky, sturdy, thickset, sturdily built, heavily built, well built, burly, bulky, brawny, solid, heavy, hefty, beefy, meaty
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