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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



... foot, and now go on with my letter at eight o'clock on the 25th. I have one request to make in answer to yours. Give my love to my dear parents, brothers, sisters, friends, and acquaintances, especially not forgetting Carl.[25] Didn't he mention me in his letter? As for my friends in the town, bully them, or get some one to bully them well, till they write to me. Tell my mother[26] that my linen is well looked after, and that I am well off, thanks to her motherly care. [After asking for some articles of clothing, for which he will send the money very soon, he proceeds.] ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... An election bully, the ugliest man in Charleston, and the deadly foe of Mingle. The accommodations are not what they might be, but, being exempt from rent and other items necessary to a prominent politician, he accepts them as a ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams
... thrashing a man who doesn't strike back! Better leave the fellow alone!' some of the more decent-minded whispered to each other in undertones, and then slunk away ashamed. Only one man, a mason, well known as the bully of the town, ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... don't help me a little bit. You no business to come into my life and tear things up the way you did. I was all right till you came. I liked myself and my neighbors bully; now nothing interests me—but just you—and your opinion of me. You think I was a cowardly coyote putting up that job on your uncle the way I did. Well, I admit it; but I've been aching to tell ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... all my apparatus together, put some bully and biscuits in my bag, and started off once more for the trenches. I admit that on the journey thoughts crept into my mind, and I wondered whether I should return. Outwardly I was merry and bright, but inwardly—well, I admit I felt a bit nervous. And yet, I had an instinctive ...
— How I Filmed the War - A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who - Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. • Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins


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