Excrement of a male bovine. [language]

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What makes bull shit particularly apt for the phrase?

Is it different in appearance, texture or odor from cow shit? Is there any basis at all for the word choice?

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@ouryL

[del]Americans[/del]thinkCowboys

I don’t get it.

Anyway, there’s no connection. Bullshit is merely an intensifier of the older use of bull as nonsense.

bullshit | Search Online Etymology Dictionary

“eloquent and insincere rhetoric,” 1915, Amer.Eng. slang. Bull in the sense of “trivial or false statements” (1914) is usually associated with this, but it existed since M.E. in the sense of “false talk, fraud,” apparently from O.Fr. boul, and perhaps connected to modern Icel. bull “nonsense.” There also was a verb bull meaning “to mock, cheat,” which dates from 1532.
“Sais christ to ypocrites … yee ar … all ful with wickednes, tresun and bull.” [“Cursor Mundi,” c.1300]

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I dunno…

I seem to recall a comedy movie from 1983: “Bullshot”

Bullshot Crummond (1983) ⭐ 5.8 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

It seems that the phrase got adopted over in the UK, but when? And why, if they don’t have cowboys?