Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballyragging
Literary usage of Ballyragging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack
lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid—or young woman ..."
2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"I never got such a ballyragging in my life before!" Luke drew the slide at his
left; and a voice, this time of a young girl, whispered hoarsely:— " I ain't ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"I have been rotting all day in the library, but even ballyragging has lost its
charm. A sweep or a smug would be a relief, but there is not so much as a ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"We remember no similar scene, if we except the ' ballyragging' which MADGE
WILDFIRE'S old beldame of a mother gave the sitting magistrate of the ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1906)
"Look here, it's all very well to go ballyragging me as you do, but you might
remember all I've had to endure to-day. I've had no dinner. ..."
6. Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle by Maud Stepney Rawson (1910)
"CCVII is devoted to them, showing that the years 1586-7 are given up to a regular
formal ballyragging on both sides: On the 31st of January, 1586, ..."
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