Bully
['bʊlɪ] or ['bʊli]
Definition
(n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
(n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
(a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
(v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
(v. i.) To act as a bully.
Editor: Trudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, hector, fire-eater, Hotspur, mock hero.
v. a. Browbeat, overbear, treat insolently.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:swashbuckler, swaggerer, braggadocio
ANT:[See BLUSTERER]
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Definition
n. a blustering noisy overbearing fellow: a ruffian hired to beat or intimidate any one: a fellow who lives upon the gains of a prostitute: (obs.) a term of familiarity to either man or woman.—adj. blustering: brisk: (U.S.) first-rate.—v.i. to bluster.—v.t. to threaten in a noisy way:—pr.p. bull′ying; pa.p. bull′ied.—n. Bull′yism.—v.t. Bull′yrag (coll.) to assail with abusive language to overawe.—ns. Bull′yragging; Bull′y-rook a bully.—Bully for you bravo!
n. a miner's hammer.
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Examples
- You only wanted to BULLY me--you never cared for my happiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Please don't bully me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Who has not seen how women bully women? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Don't imagine that you can bully me, said he, rising to his feet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with, remarked Holmes as we trudged along together. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's a living thing, why should he bully it and torture it? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why do you both want to bully me? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That may be true, but it is no reason for being bullied by it into a tame admission that what has always been must always be. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In his life he had fought for his tribe, even if he had bullied it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You was favored, and he was bullied and beat. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Cuff, the unquestioned king of the school, ruled over his subjects, and bullied them, with splendid superiority. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is a shame you should stay here to be bullied in that way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I could not support being what is called Bullied, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the waiters royally, and Jos gobbled the turtle with immense satisfaction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This straightforward bullying was met by abject submission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They want this bullying to occur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No; but before I go on, said Stryver, shaking his head in his bullying way, I'll have this out with you. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He darted into the hall, and a few moments later his bullying voice sounded from the back room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The poor soul grew so timid that she actually left off bullying Briggs any more, and clung to her niece, more fond and terrified every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was possibly much local variation, the rule of violent bullies here and a good-tempered freedom there, famine this year and plenty the next. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her officers were swarthy bullies, hating and hated by their crew. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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