Aphthous stomatitis (Canker sore). shallow ulcer with a white or yellow center and red border; seen on the inner side of the lip and cheeks or on the tongue; it begins with a burning or tingling sensation and slight swelling; painful; usually lasts 7-10 days and heals without a scar. î î î.
It was all a cheap publicity stunt. One of the regulation features of early ballparks, supposedly, was a gigantic billboard advertising Bull Durham tobacco, inevitably located out in left field, near the pitchers' warm-up area. Hence the bullpen was the pen near the Bull. (Which, frankly, sounds like a lot of bull to me.)
Bull, meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term bullshit has been used as early as 1915 in American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II.The word bull itself may have derived from the Old French boul meaning fraud, deceit. The term horseshit is a near synonym.he word bullshit does not appear in the text of the poem, and Eliot himself never published the poem. As to earlier etymology the Oxford English Dictionary cites bull with the meaning trivial, insincere, untruthful talk or writing, nonsense .