What is the etymology of the word "bullhorn"?

Answer 1

It had long been noted that the cries of a toreador being gored carried unusually clearly and loudly to the farthest reaches of the bullring, but it wasn't until the great retired matador W.G. Gracia began writing commentary on the day's matches that the term "bullhorn" was first used in print. The first mention that can be found in the archives of the Madrid Herald-Tribune is in a discussion of an event that took place after the great contest of Sunday June 3, 1902 between the famed fighting bull Ferdinand del Santiago and a series of unfortunate toreros. During the wild celebrations that followed the final contest of the day, one of the picadors accidentally sat on a bumblebee that had somehow entered the stadium. His loud bellows momentarily quieted the riotous crowd, and del Grazia wrote afterward that (in translation) "his sprightly squeals of pain and insultedness rang out across the Plaza as if he was on a bullhorn (cuerno de toro)". This felicitous term was quickly adopted by fans of the corrida, and within a matter of weeks it had become synonymous with exceptionally loud or amplified vocalization. Newspapermen covering the Spanish Civil War in the late 1920s picked up the term in bars while looking for stories of local color, and soon the phrase "on a bullhorn" was heard throughout the world. When electronic amplifying devices were invented by J. Alfred Prufrock at Bell Labs in August of 1956, it just seemed natural to call them "bullhorns".
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