BULLY, BULLYING
ADJECTIVES
1892 ► HAWCH-MOUTHED bullying, blustering; coarse, vulgar, or profane in speech → Eng. dial.
1905 ► HALLOCKING bullying; teasing, boisterous, rough, rude → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1940 ► IGNORANT bullying; arrogant, ill-natured → W. Indies & UK sl.
2007 ► BUFFALOED bullied, cowed, overwhelmed, bamboozled → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1854 ► HOT CORNER a position in which one is bullied or threatened → sl.
..20C ► NOOGIE a rubbing of the knuckles harshly across someone’s head, esp. used by children as a form of bullying or punishment → Aust. sl.
1905 ► VAPOUR bullying; exulting in actions and words → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1935 ► BOOKOOING bullying; loud talking → Amer. dial.
2007 ► BEASTING a ‘dressing-down’, humiliation, or instance of physical bullying → UK sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1400 ► BARRATER → BARRATOR a hired bully; one who fights → obs.
1500 ► BARGAINER a bully; a quarreller; a wrangler → Sc. obs.
1515 ► FACER a bully; a braggart; one who boasts, blusters, or swaggers; one who possesses ‘cheek’ → obs.
1535 ► BYSTOUR a bully; a braggart; a loud, rude talker → Sc. obs.
1570 ► BANGISTER → BANGSTER a bully; a braggart; a burly, rough, violent fellow → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1576 ► HACKER a bully; a violent thug; a murderer; a cutthroat → obs.
1598 ► BURGULLIAN a bully; a braggadocio → obs.
1598 ► RODOMONT a bully; a vain or blustering boaster → arch.
..L16 ► ROARER a street bully → sl.
..L16 ► ROARING-BLADE a street bully → sl.
..L16 ► ROARING-BOY a street bully → sl.
..L16 ► ROARING-GIRL a street bully → sl.
..L16 ► ROARING-LAD a street bully → sl.
..L16 ► ROARING-RUFFIAN a street bully → sl.
..E17 ► NIGHTCAP a bully who specializes in finding victims at night → sl.
1611 ► TEAR-CAT a bully; a swaggerer; one who causes a disturbance or trouble; a thug; a fierce or destructive person
1621 ► BILBO-LORD a bully; a swaggerer
1622 ► FANFARON a bully, a blusterer, a swaggerer; an empty boaster or braggart; a vain pretender
1625 ► CACAFOGO → CACAFUEGO → CACAFUGO → CACOFUEGO a noisy bully; a blusterer; a furious, fierce fellow; a braggart; a very difficult or devilish person; one with a fiery temper
1631 ► HECTOR a bully; a thug; a blusterer; a swaggering fellow
1639 ► BELLSWAGGER → BELSWAGGER a bully; a swaggering gallant, a noisy braggart → obs.
1664 ► TEARER a bully; a swaggerer; a thug; a person who tears or rushes along or about; a blustering or violent person
1672 ► DRAWCANSIR a bullying, blustering fellow; a pot-valiant braggart
1681 ► VALIENTON a bully; a braggart → obs.
1698 ► HACKUM a blustering bully; a bravo; a braggart → UK sl.
..L17 ► CAPTAIN BLUFF a bully; a braggart → sl.
..L17 ► CAPTAIN BLUSTER a bully; a braggart → sl.
..18C ► CAPTAIN BOUNCE a bully; a braggart → sl.
1706 ► HECK a bully; a blusterer; a braggart; a hector; a swaggering fellow; a swashbuckler → obs.
1712 ► HAWCUBITE a street-bully; one of a band of dissolute young men who infested the streets of London in the beginning of the 18th century
1726 ► BULLY-BACK a bully who supports another person → obs.
1745 ► RABIATOR a violent or ruthless bully; a violent, noisy, greedy person; a lout; a boor; a robber; a plunderer → Sc.
1745 ► ROBIATOR → RUBIATOR a bully; a plunderer; a violent, ruthless person; a lout; a boor → Sc.
1775 ► BELLY-SWAGGER a bully or swaggering gallant; a whoremonger, a lecher, a pimp → obs.
1825 ► BARGANER a bully; a fighter → Sc.
1830 ► SACRIPANT a bully and boaster; a boastful pretender to valour; a braggart
1872 ► STREET-HOUND a bully; a rough; a loafer → Amer. sl.
1886 ► BLADDER-HEAD a coarse, brutal bully → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1891 ► CAPTAIN HACKUM a hectoring bully → sl. (Bk.)
1898 ► TAWNIE → TAWNY a bully → Sc. sl.
..L19 ► BULLDOSER → BULLDOZER a bully; a thug → US sl.
1899 ► BUCKO a bully; a blustering or domineering person → nautical sl.
1902 ► JANNEK an overgrown, blundering bully → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HIREN a roaring bully → sl. (Bk.)
1905 ► UNDHERLOOT a person who is bullied, befooled, or made game of → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1919 ► TUSH HOG a bully; a tough, aggressive person; a rowdy → Amer. dial.
1930 ► DEADENER a bully; one who prefers to settle arguments through violence → Aust. sl.
1932 ► BIG DOING → BIG DOINGS a bully; a boaster, a braggart; a pompous person, a show-off → US sl.
1943 ► GANGALII a bully → W. Indies
1956 ► BAD-ASS a bully; a dangerous, browbeating individual; a bully → sl., orig. & chiefly US
1967 ► ARSE-KICKER → ASS-KICKER a bully; a person who habitually employs physical violence as a form of coercion → Amer. sl.
1970 ► MUD-CRUSHER a bully whose aim is to crush everyone into the ground → African-American sl.
1972 ► BOGART a bullying or physically aggressive person; a brawler → Amer. dial.
1988 ► HEAVY a bullying, intimidating, rough, or coercive person → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1995 ► GAZOONY a bully or strong-arm man → Amer. criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1996 ► BEMBE a bully; a large strong person of either sex → W. Indies
2006 ► ENFORCER a bully; a thug or bodyguard → US sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
..16C ► FACE AND BRACE to bully verbally; to bluster, to defy → sl.
1549 ► FACE IT AND BRACE IT to bluster, to defy, to bully verbally → sl.
1621 ► CAMPLE to bully; to scold; to retort, answer pertly; to argue or contend saucily; to be sulky or cross → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1628 ► VAPOUR to bully; to swagger; to brag, to boast, to exult; to threaten with violence
1640 ► BOUNCE to bully; to talk big at; to blow up, to scold roundly
.M17 ► HECTOR to play the bully; to brag, to bluster; to domineer
1781 ► VAMPER → VOMPER to bully; to swagger; to boast, to bluster → Eng. dial.
1785 ► VAPER to bully; to swagger; to brag, to boast, to exult; to threaten with violence → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1790 ► BALLYRAG to bully, to pressurize → Eng. dial.
..19C ► KIMBAW to bully or to beat → sl.
1808 ► RAG to bully; to annoy, to tease, to mock; to ridicule; to vex; to enrage → UK sl.
1829 ► MAJOR to bully, to domineer over → Eng. dial.
1832 ► OOL to bully; to treat harshly, to ill-use; to wreck the health or spirits of → Sc.
1850 ► HAZE to bully; to treat cruelly; to subject to cruel horseplay, as practiced by students → US
1867 ► HORSE to bully or tyrannize into hard work or extra effort → US sl., esp. nautical usage
1882 ► YEWN to bully → Eng. dial.
1889 ► BAM to bully; to browbeat, to beat, to strike → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BAFFLE to bully; to insult, to tease → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1899 ► PECK ON to bully; to take advantage of; to impose on → Amer. dial.
1905 ► HALLOCK to bully; to tease, to worry → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► UNDHERLOOD → UNDHERLUDE to bully; to make game of; to banter → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOW-WOW to bully, to cheat → Sc. (Bk.)
1930 ► LOUD-TALK to bully, impress, or convince someone by using assertive speech or double-talk → Amer. dial.
1939 ► RAUNCH to bully; to swagger, to intimidate → Amer. dial.
1967 ► BIG-BOY to bully, to tease; to take advantage of someone → Amer. dial.
1970 ► BAD ASS to bully, to behave like a thug → US sl.
1970 ► BOGART to bully or tease; to act in a bold, aggressive way → Amer. dial.
2007 ► BEAST to bully, to oppress, to humiliate → UK prison sl. (Bk.)
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