bullyrag
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of bullyrag
First recorded in 1780–90; earlier ballarag, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town.
From Time Magazine Archive
And wills fur it to live, and fights fur it to, and determines that it must, and jest natcherally tries fur to bullyrag death into going away.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
On Sunday he allowed Mrs. Davis to bullyrag him into a tentative engagement.
From What's-His-Name by Harrison Fisher
I tried to bullyrag him into keeping on, but it was no go.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
And when she started to bullyrag you, it was all I could do—But it won't last long now.
From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
The world pleaded, cajoled and bullyragged Nintendo into putting Mario on smartphones.
From Time ● Dec. 15, 2016
For his effrontery, Lindsay was exiled to the dismal Chicago Blackhawks in 1957, and thereafter bullyragged into early retirement.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015
The automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
On the eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sample causes: crusades against Governors, mudslinging matches with Senators, bullyragging attacks on advertisers, lavish parties for children, sick dogs and horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't hold with all this bullyragging in newspapers about "sourfaces" and "saved."
From Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham
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