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)

1. (obsolete) A little bull; a bull calf.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:

     And better yet than this, a bulchin two years old

   • 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170:

     Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?