EGAVE

bully

About 1.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    A playground bully pushed a girl off the swing.
  2. noun A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
  3. noun A hired thug.
  4. noun A sex worker's minder.
  5. noun Bully beef.
  6. noun A brisk, dashing fellow.
  7. noun The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
  8. noun Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. A common bully, Gobiomorphus cotidianus

Similar words

browbeat bullyrag hector ballyrag rowdy ruffian roughneck push around hooligan yobo

Often followed by

and the beef pulpit for of who in me

Word family

bullied bullier bullies bulliest bullying

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