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Bully   /bˈʊli/   Listen
noun
Bully  n.  (pl. bullies)  
1.
A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous, who threatens, intimidates, or badgers people who are smaller or weaker than he is; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. "Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in."
2.
A brisk, dashing fellow. (Slang Obs.)


Bully beef, Bully  n.  Pickled or canned beef.


verb
Bully  v. t.  (past & past part. bullied; pres. part. bullying)  To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully (1) toward. "For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing."
Synonyms: To bluster; swagger; hector; domineer.


Bully  v. i.  To act as a bully (1).


adjective
Bully  adj.  
1.
Jovial and blustering; dashing. (Slang) "Bless thee, bully doctor."
2.
Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse. (Slang, U.S.)


interjection
bully  interj.  Well done! Excellent!





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"Bully" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nightingale, and you justly remark that close observation of John Bull seems to warrant the conclusion that the nature of his bovine ancestor is still far from eliminated from his descendant. And what is the secret of your feeling? Simply that you hate bullying. Why, then, young gentlemen, do you bully? ...
— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis
... school library, which had been stocked during the dark ages, when that type of story was popular, there were numerous school stories in which the hero retrieved a rocky reputation by thrashing the bully, displaying in the encounter an intuitive but overwhelming skill with his fists. Drummond could not help feeling that Sheen must have been reading one of these stories. It was all very fine and noble of him to want to show that he was No Coward After All, like Leo Cholmondeley ...
— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse
... studied the pair which guarded the end of the main ditch near Deer Key. These were no city toughs who would try to bully rather than fight, but lank-haired, sallow-faced killers from the darkest part of Big Cypress Swamp; men who were desperate because of the crimes they had left behind them, and to whom rifle fire was ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... The bully of France that aspires to renown By dull cutting of throats, and by venturing his own; Let him fight till he's ruined, make matches, and treat, To afford us still news, the dull coffee-house cheat: He's but a brave wretch, whilst that I am more free, ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... Covey deemed it best to{192} give me the go-by. It is, perhaps, not altogether creditable to my natural temper, that, after this conflict with Mr. Covey, I did, at times, purposely aim to provoke him to an attack, by refusing to keep with the other hands in the field, but I could never bully him to another battle. I had made up my mind to do him serious damage, if he ever again attempted to lay violent ...
— My Bondage and My Freedom • Frederick Douglass


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