Definition of Bully

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Definition of Bully

Bully

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

A brisk, dashing fellow.

Jovial and blustering; dashing.

Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.

To act as a bully.

Alt. of Bully beef

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Bully Quotations

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
Roger Daltrey

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
Kiefer Sutherland

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
Jack Bowman

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
William Weld

Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.
Rob Paulsen

Bully Translations

bully in French is brutalisons, brutalisez, brutalisent
bully in German is Tyrann, Maulheld

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