bullyrag
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of bullyrag
First recorded in 1780–90; earlier ballarag, of obscure origin
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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
Then we watched them go and bullyrag Jake; because we was pretty uneasy for him.
From Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
“If you’re going to bullyrag me....” he began blusteringly, “I may as well tell you that I’m not going back to Paris till I please, and–––” “Very well,” said Micky.
From The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres
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
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
By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
But before that he bullyragged me because I had found out that there were other keys knocking about the place that fitted the padlocks on the bullion-room door.
From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison
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
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
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
He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the various slanging matches and bullyragging competitions which form their courtship it is always the maiden that is most successful.
From Stage-Land by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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