Bullload

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A quantity of cargo or burden borne by a bull ; a huge amount of empty talk or slang nonsense
2. The weight an ox or bull is able to haul or carry ; a heap of slangy claptrap and baloney
3. The burden a bull could pull or bear ; an enormous quantity of informal rubbish, deception or untruths

Etymology: "Bullload" is a compound of "bull" and "load," following the pattern of "truckload" and "shipload," where the second part names how much a vehicle or vessel can carry. Here "bull" is the slang sense of nonsense, so the compound turns that talk into a measure, as if it could be loaded onto a cart. That slang sense of "bull" is commonly understood as a shortening of "bullshit," which is why the word is informal and vulgar in tone. The exact route by which "bull" came to mean nonsense is not firmly established, so the surest statement is that the compound borrows its meaning from that slang noun.