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 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 Stewart Edward White
One of the first things a detective has to do is to surprise his man, and then immediately begin to bullyrag and overbear him; pretend that all is known, that the game is up.
From The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
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
On Sunday he allowed Mrs. Davis to bullyrag him into a tentative engagement.
From What's-His-Name by Harrison Fisher
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
By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never heard of his fightin' anybody but his own kind, and when he was bullyragged.
From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Bret Harte
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
General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type.
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
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 Christy Mathewson
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