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
Then you hector and bullyrag us on the stairs," said Stalky, "about matters that are your business entirely.
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
And if you can’t lift it, then leave it for another trip, and bullyrag those skinflints at H. M. & Co.’s to send a man down to help you.
From Gold by White, Stewart Edward
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 Marquis, Don
Say," he grumbled, "what call has that big lobster to bullyrag this crowd the way he's been doin'?
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan
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
Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It is unpleasant to have to sit at meals and listen to the only girl you have ever really loved being bullyragged by an old lady with six chins.
From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The pastime of bullyragging the pitcher by the coachers has lost its popularity recently.
From Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside by Mathewson, Christy
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