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
He was a born boss, and loved to command, and to jaw and dispute with inferiors and harry them and bullyrag them.
From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Twain, Mark
Then we watched them go and bullyrag Jake; because we was pretty uneasy for him.
From Tom Sawyer, Detective by Twain, Mark
Dared you break the crust and bullyrag 'em—hot, fierce and angry, what wide beaks buzz plain Saxon as ever spoke Witenagemot!
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
But I did not come here to bullyrag like an old woman.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony
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
By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Martin Grimbal ’s so gude a friend as any man could have, an’ you did n’t ought to have bullyragged him that way,” she declared.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license.
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
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
General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type.
From Time Magazine Archive
I held my peace and let them search, taking the threat for a bit of soldier bullyragging meant to keep me quiet.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
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