Bully

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.
  • n. A hired ruffian; a thug.
  • n. A pimp.
  • n. Archaic A fine person.
  • n. Archaic A sweetheart.
  • v. To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See Synonyms at intimidate.
  • v. To make (one's way) aggressively.
  • verb-intransitive. To behave like a bully.
  • verb-intransitive. To force one's way aggressively or by intimidation: "They bully into line at the gas pump” ( Martin Gottfried).
  • adj. Excellent; splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.
  • interjection. Used to express approval: Bully for you!
  • n. Canned or pickled beef. Also called bully beef.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
  • n. A hired thug.
  • n. A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
  • n. Bully beef.
  • v. To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
  • v. To act aggressively towards.
  • adj. Very good; excellent.
  • interjection. Well done!
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A brisk, dashing fellow.
  • Pickled or canned beef.
  • adj. Jovial and blustering; dashing.
  • adj. Fine; excellent.
  • v. To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully{1} toward.
  • verb-intransitive. To act as a bully{1}.
  • interjection. Well done! Excellent!
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing fellow; a swaggerer; a swashbuckler; one who hectors, browbeats, or domineers.
  • n. A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow: a familiar term of address.
  • n. A degraded fellow who protects fallen women and lives on their gains.
  • n. A Cornish name of the shanny. Also bullycod.
  • n. In Tasmania, a species of blenny, Blennius tasmanicus.
  • Blustering; hectoring; ruffianly.
  • Brisk; dashing; jovial; high-spirited.
  • Fine; capital; good: as, a bully horse, picture, etc.
  • To act the bully toward; overbear with bluster or menaces.
  • To make fearful; overawe; daunt; terrorize.
  • Synonyms To browbeat, hector, domineer over.
  • To be loudly arrogant and overbearing; be noisy and quarrelsome.
  • Synonyms To bluster, swagger, vapor.
  • n. In mining, a kind of hammer used in striking the drill or borer. In its simplest form it has a square section at the eye and an octagonal face.
  • n. In field-hockey, the beginning of a game and the starting of each goal. A player from each side stands facing the sideline, and strikes first the ground and then the stick of his opponent alternately three times, after which either player may strike the ball: as soon as it is so struck the ball is in play.
  • n. A foot-ball scrimmage.
  • n. The foreman or boss of a logging-camp.
  • n. Canned or pickled beef. Also attrib., as bully beef.
  • n. The bullace or sloe.
  • n. Same as bully-tree. Also called bully-bay and bully-berry tree.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hired thug
  • adj. very good
  • v. discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
  • v. be bossy towards
  • n. a cruel and brutal fellow
    • Equivalent
    good    bully beef   
    Antonym
    coax    cajole   
    Verb Form
    bullied    bullies    bullying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    thug    strong-armer    toughie    goon    hoodlum    tough    punk    hood    coax    inveigle   
    Cross Reference
    blusterer    bluster    bully for you   
    Variant
    bullied   
    Form
    bully boy    bully pulpit   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dashing    fine    excellent    domineer    bluster    swagger    hector    intimidate    overbear    bounce   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Woolley    fully    pulley    wooley    woolly    wooly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    liar    ruffian    drunkard    thug    brute    thief    traitor    scoundrel    tyrant    villain   
     
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