Synonyms for bulldog

Noun

1. bulldog, English bulldog, working dog

usage: a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting

Verb

1. bulldog, assail, assault, set on, attack

usage: attack viciously and ferociously

2. bulldog, overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master

usage: throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo

Adjective

1. bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding, stubborn (vs. docile)

usage: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"