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a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo attack viciously and ferociously 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" stubborn |
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