bulldog

Other forms of bulldog

plural

bulldogs·

past tense

bulldogged·

present participle

bulldogging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bulldog

What does bulldog mean?

bulldog means "attack viciously and ferociously". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bulldog?

bulldog has 2 syllables: bull-dog. The stress falls on "bull". In IPA it is /ˈbʊlˌdɔɡ/.

What is another word for bulldog?

Close synonyms include English bulldog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bulldog a common word?

bulldog is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bulldog?

5 words rhyme with bulldog. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.