bullwhip
noun, verb
bullwhip is a noun meaning “A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-U-L-L-W-H-I-P, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bullwhip is bullwhips.
What does bullwhip mean?
noun
- 1
A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock.
verb
- 1
To beat with a bullwhip.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bullwhip?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-bullwhip.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bullwhip
- bullwhips plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- bullwhipping participle, present
- bullwhipped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bullwhip?
Bullwhip appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Bullwhip in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense whip:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | zurriago, zurriaga |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bullwhip come from?
From bull + whip.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).