bull-necked in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for bull-necked in the English»French Dictionary

bull-necked ADJ

bull-necked

avec un cou de taureau

Translations for bull-necked in the French»English Dictionary

cou [ku] N m

cou

neck

il s'est blessé au cou

he has hurt his neck

j'ai mal au cou

my neck is aching

avoir un cou de taureau

to have a bull neck, to be bull-necked

un animal au long cou

an animal with a long neck

embrasser qn dans le cou

to kiss sb's neck

porter un foulard autour du cou

to wear a scarf around one's neck

avoir des ennuis ou problèmes jusqu'au cou fig

to be up to one's neck in problems

être endetté jusqu'au cou fig

to be up to one's eyes in debt

se casser ou rompre le cou

to break one's neck

se mettre/avoir la corde au cou inf

to tie/to have tied the knot inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

They look bull-necked compared to gulls, and have short stubby bills.

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A 5ft 11in, 220lb, bull-necked slab of badness who kept pigeons.

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Orderlies squeak past, rolling oxygen bottles; a bull-necked surgeon stands with his hands on his hips at the nurses' station, his forehead knotted in a frown.

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A bulging, bull-necked man in his early 50s, wearing a crisp white shirt, sleeves rolled up carelessly, a red patterned tie.

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The accompanying illustration featured a bull-necked young man in a shiny suit standing outside his bought council house with a satellite dish on the roof and a new motor outside.

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They sit in a conference room where the lights are dimmed, the petite scientist and the bull-necked lawyer.

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