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bullhead
[ bool-hed ]
noun
- any of several North American, freshwater catfishes of the genus Ictalurus, having a rounded or truncate caudal fin.
- an obstinate or stupid person.
bullhead
/ ˈbʊlˌhɛd /
noun
- any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- any freshwater North American catfish of the genus Ameiurus (or Ictalurus ), having a large head bearing several long barbels
- a scorpion fish, Scorpaena guttata , of North American Pacific coastal waters
- informal.a stupidly stubborn or unintelligent person
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But the police held the old chief captive, and two of them shot him—Bullhead and Red Tomahawk.
“My country calls and I must go,” says the bullhead to himself, and he opens his mouth and the liver disappears.
There is no fish that does more thinking or has a better head for grasping great questions, or chunks of liver than the bullhead.
A pin hook, a piece of liver, and a cistern pole, is all the capital required to catch a bullhead.
The boy gets down on his knees to dissect the bullhead, and get his hook, and it may be that the boy swears.
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