bovine male animal, from Old English bula a bull, a steer, or Old Norse boli bull, both from Proto-Germanic *bullon- (cf. Middle Dutch bulle, Dutch bul, German Bulle), perhaps from a Germanic verbal stem meaning to roar, which survives in some German dialects and perhaps in the first element of boulder (q.v.).
Andrew Jackson - 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845). Old Hickory, Jackson.
Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. President, had a very different childhood than his predecessors. Unlike them, Jackson wasn't from a wealthy Southern aristocratic family. Jackson was born into a family of farmers in the Carolinas in 1767. He was the first president to be born in a log cabin.