English Explanatory Dictionary

Bullis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Middle English.

Word forms

Bullis Bullises

Etymology

Probably a metonymic occupational surname for someone employed in a cattle shed, from a reduced form of Middle English bulehus (“bull house”).

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