What does Bulli mean in VW?
First VW Transporters in the ’50s were available in two variants: for passengers (Bus) and for transporting goods (Lieferwagen). Bus + Lieferwagen = Bulli. It’s a nickname. Like the Beetle, from the beginning, the Type 2 earned many nicknames from its fans. Popular nicknames in German include VW-Bus, Bulli/Bully (a portmanteau of Bus and Lieferwagen (delivery van)), Hippie-van, or simply der Bus.
What is a Bulli in English?
C] (MEAN PERSON) someone who hurts or frightens someone else, often over a period of time, and often forcing them to do something that they do not want to do: You’re just a big bully! Teachers usually know who the bullies are in a class. It comes from the Middle Dutch word boele, which means “lover. At that time, bully was used in English to mean “sweetheart. Its use then became more general, coming to mean “fine fellow,” and, eventually, the opposite: “swaggering coward. Bully began to be used in this sense around the 1700s.