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Definition of Bullyragging
1. bullyrag [v] - See also: bullyrag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullyragging
Literary usage of Bullyragging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by Charles Kingsley (1917)
"... and bullyragging at her, because she had stolen no grouse-eggs, and had actually
dared to say that she would not ..."
2. Truth about Russia by William Thomas Stead (1888)
"Mere bullyragging is not a policy worthy of a great Empire, ... When bullyragging
exposes us to an aggravation of every evil the thought of which set us ..."
3. Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of Its Inhabitants by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1906)
"It is a grand thing to hear him bullyragging the villain. ... The house is never
more than one story high, bullyragging THE VILLAIN. but it makes up in ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"Mathews urged him to desist—in vain, for the bumpkin went on " bullyragging " in
fine Yorkshire style. " I wouldn't hold my tongue for nobody," cried he, ..."
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