† bulchin Obs. or dial.
Also 4 bulchyn, 6–8 bulching.
[Variant of bulkin; cf. bulch n.2]
1. A bull-calf.
| 1330 R. Brunne Chron. 174 For ten mark men sold a litille bulchyn. 1573 Tusser Husb. xxxiii. (1878) 74 Lamb, bulchin, and pig, geld vnder the big. 1637 Heywood Jup. & Io Wks. 1874 VI. 272 Wouldst thou not haue some Bulchin from the herd? 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. I, Bulching, a word used in some Counties for a Calf. |
2. Used as a term of contempt or reproach.
| 1617 Middleton & Rowley Fair Quarr. iv. iv, The bulchins will use the Irish captain with respect. 1638 Ford Fancies iii. iii, Roguery, brokage and roguery, or call me bulchin. |
3. Used as a term of endearment.
| 1633 Shirley Gamester iv. i, How is't, Bulchins? Would you had been with us. 1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Bulchim, a Chubbingly Boy or Lad. 1725 New Cant. Dict. |