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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



... relative, threatened the Duke of La Rochefoucauld; whereupon the latter said that, if he had them outside, he would strangle them both; to which the coadjutor replied, "My dear La Franchise (the duke's nickname), do not act the bully; you are a poltroon and I am a priest; we shall not do one another much harm." There was no fighting, and the Parliament, supported by the Duke of Orleans, obtained from the queen a declaration of ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... happiness was to "sit in a public house with a quart of beer and a long pipe," to play cards for silver money, to "keep a white bull dog with one gray ear, and carry her puppies in his pocket just like a man," to have apprentices and to bully them, to knock them about and make them carry soot sacks while he "rode before them on his donkey, with a pipe in his mouth and a flower in his button hole, like a king at the head of his army!" "Yes, when his master let him have a pull at the leavings ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... "This bully forces me to spoil his Point de Venise," he said coolly, as he set down the tankard. "There should be a law for chaining up rabid curs that ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... to form an excuse for the happening as portrayed. You will find it all logical and you will be able to follow the old man and the biblically named horses from track to track and from adventure to adventure, until you finally lay the book aside and tell yourself what a bully time you had reading it and how humorous and human and wholly entertaining ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... table-music is wholly delightful. A brilliant episode is that of the fencing-master, who is musically pictured by a trumpet and pianoforte (with Max von Pauer at the keyboard). Nothing could be more dazzling. You hear the snapping of the foil in the hand of the truculent bully. The music that accompanies the tailor is capital, as are also the two dances—parodies of the dances in Salome and Elektra—for the kitchen boy, who leaps out of a huge omelette (like the pie-girl years ago in naughty New York), and for a tailor's apprentice. ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker


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