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Bullterrier   Listen
noun
bullterrier, Bull terrier  n.  (Zool.) A breed of short-haired terrier dogs originated in England by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bullterrier" Quotes from Famous Books



... he saw Bemis and Lucille's coachman lifting a crate from a carriage. From within the crate came the whimpering barks of an imprisoned bull terrier. ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... the name of the chromolithographers. He has adopted almost all my ideas, and I told him (though it is not in the tale) "I should like a dog to be with the children in all the pictures, and a cat to be with the old naturalist,"—and he has such a dog (a white bull terrier) [sketch], who waits on the woodland path for them in one picture, noofles in the colander at the water-beasts in another, examines the beetle in a third, stands on his hind legs to peep into the aquarium in a fourth, etc. But I cannot describe it all to you. I have asked ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

... a cigarette and inhaled a great draught of smoke. There was something in his alert, intent expression reminiscent of a bull terrier when he hears rats scuffling ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... would be quite an exciting game. It doesn't really matter that Blazer's only a bull terrier; we can call him a bloodhound, you know," Tinker went on, looking at the dog a ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

... would prefer to attract no attention whatever were it not for the fact that it is as necessary for a poet to print his songs as it is for a bird to sing them. His favourite companions are Shelley, Wordsworth, and a bull terrier, and he is said to play billiards with "grim earnestness." In 1907 he published a tiny volume called The Last Blackbird, and in 1917 another and tinier one called Poems. During this decade he printed in a few paper booklets, which ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps



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