| 词汇 | bulldogging |
| 词源 | bulldogging. “One of the men . . . reached well over the ani- mal’s back to get a slack of the loose hide next the belly, lifted strongly, and tripped. This is called ‘bulldogging.’ ” So did an early writer describe the way cowboys wrestled steers to the ground in the American West. They often, however, leaped from their horses and twisted the cow’s neck, flipping it over. Neither method suggests the way bulldogs fought bulls when such cruel contests were held in England—for the bulldog seized the bull’s nose in its mouth. Esse F. O’Brien’s The First Bulldogger (1961) therefore suggests that a black cowboy named Bill Pickett is responsible for the word—Pickett would sink his teeth into a bull’s nose while wrestling it to the ground, his method being responsible for the name of the more con- ventional method! |
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