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A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing fellow; a swaggerer; a swashbuckler; one who hectors, browbeats, or domineers.
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A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow: a familiar term of address.
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A degraded fellow who protects fallen women and lives on their gains.
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A Cornish name of the shanny. Also bullycod.
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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.
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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.
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Canned or pickled beef. Also attrib., as bully beef.
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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.
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A foot-ball scrimmage.
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The foreman or boss of a logging-camp.
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The bullace or sloe.
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Same as bully-tree. Also called bully-bay and bully-berry tree.