bully

Meaning of bully

noun
  1. a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.
    he is a ranting, domineering bully
verb
  1. seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).
    her 11- year-old son has been constantly bullied at school
    a local man was bullied into helping them

mid 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch boele ‘lover’. Original use was as a term of endearment applied to either sex; it later became a familiar form of address to a male friend. The current sense dates from the late 17th century.

adjective
  1. very good; excellent.
    the statue really looked bully

late 16th century (originally used of a person, meaning ‘admirable, gallant, jolly’): from bully1. The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.

noun

corned beef.

mid 18th century: alteration of bouilli.

noun

an act of starting play in field hockey, in which two opponents strike each other's sticks three times and then go for the ball.

verb

(in field hockey) start play with a bully.

late 19th century (originally denoting a scrum in Eton football): of unknown origin.

Information about bully

  • The plural form of bully is: bullies.
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Hyphenation of bully

bully

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • bully is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bully synonyms

Meaning bang-up:

corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, peachy, swell, smashing

Meaning tough:

tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo

Meaning strong-arm:

browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, hector

Meaning browbeat:

browbeat, swagger

Meaning a person who persecutes someone, especially for their race or political or religious beliefs:

persecutor

Meaning a person or group that oppresses people:

oppressor

Meaning a person exercising power or control in a cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary way:

tyrant

Meaning a person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering on someone:

tormentor

Meaning a person who frightens or overawes someone, especially in order to make them do something:

intimidator

Meaning a whip used as an instrument of punishment:

scourge

Meaning a thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind:

heavy

Meaning a violent person, especially a criminal:

thug

Meaning a tough, uncompromising, or intimidating person:

badass

Meaning harass or annoy (someone) persistently:

persecute

Meaning keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority:

oppress

Meaning rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly:

tyrannize

Meaning annoy or provoke in an unkind way:

torment

Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:

intimidate

Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:

cow

Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:

coerce

Meaning bring under domination or control, especially by conquest:

subjugate

Meaning assert one's will over another in an arrogant way:

domineer

Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:

pressure, pressurize

Meaning compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action:

constrain

Meaning move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force:

press

Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:

push

Meaning make (someone) do something against their will:

force

Meaning force or oblige (someone) to do something:

compel

Meaning make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something:

oblige

Meaning harass, persecute, or pursue relentlessly:

hound

Meaning subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation:

harass

Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:

nag

Meaning persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory):

harry

Meaning repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester:

badger

Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:

goad

Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:

prod

Meaning trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions:

pester

Meaning pressurize (someone) into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means:

brainwash

Meaning force or bully (someone) to do something:

bludgeon

Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:

persuade

Meaning have an influence on:

influence

Meaning coerce (someone) into doing something:

dragoon

Meaning a gambling card game in which players try to acquire cards with a face value totalling 21 and no more:

blackjack

Meaning use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something):

bulldoze

Meaning rush or coerce (someone) into doing something:

railroad

Meaning (with reference to an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it:

bounce

Meaning push roughly; jostle:

hustle

Translation of bully

Words that rhyme with bully

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