Verb (used with object), : to bullyrag fraternity plebs. From Dictionary.com.
"She is likely to scold and 'bullyrag' to her heart's content. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
I had no business trying to bullyrag you into cooperating. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
(Elspeth, I may tell you, speaks only English - well, Scotch, if you like - and enough nursery French to get her through Customs and bullyrag waiters, but anything the Queen said, however wild, always sent her into transports of approval.). From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
(Elspeth, I may tell you, speaks only English — well, Scotch, if you like — and enough nursery French to get her through Customs and bullyrag waiters, but anything the Queen said, however wild, always sent her into transports of approval.). From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
I managed to bullyrag giddoen into splitting the "Five Courses of Seafood," each of which takes over one of the five basic flavors hot, bitter, salty, sweet, sour for a harmonious and tasty balance of humours, or chi, or whatever version of malarkey they have in Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
But I did not come here to bullyrag like an old woman. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference
"I shouldn't bullyrag them, sir," interposed Warrington. From Wordnik.com. [Parrot & Co.] Reference
I tried to bullyrag him into keeping on, but it was no go. From Wordnik.com. [Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)] Reference
Do you remember how you used to bullyrag me about my coat and. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Tether] Reference
Do you remember how you used to bullyrag me about my coat and your bridge?. From Wordnik.com. [Youth And Two Other Stories] Reference
On Sunday he allowed Mrs. Davis to bullyrag him into a tentative engagement. From Wordnik.com. [What's-His-Name] Reference
Then we watched them go and bullyrag Jake; because we was pretty uneasy for him. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Sawyer, Detective] Reference
And when she started to bullyrag you, it was all I could do -- But it won't last long now. From Wordnik.com. [Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories] Reference
'Mother, if you ask me, I think it serves us all jolly well right, and it's a downright shame to bullyrag poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference
And wills fur it to live, and fights fur it to, and determines that it must, and jest natcherally tries fur to bullyrag death into going away. From Wordnik.com. [Danny's Own Story] Reference
Our ship fed the poor devils on the 25th of last May, far out at sea and left them to bullyrag their way to New York -- and now they ain't as near. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference
One of the first things a detective has to do is to surprise his man, and then immediately begin to bullyrag and overbear him; pretend that all is known, that the game is up. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
There are some politicians -- and some strong ones, too -- who would rather stand pat in a wrong cause and bullyrag and face down a righteous majority in a convention, or a House, than to be right from the very start, and win out without any fight at all. From Wordnik.com. [Tattlings of a Retired Politician] Reference
"Say," he grumbled, "what call has that big lobster to bullyrag this crowd the way he's been doin '?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference
I don’t ever get enough to eat, gen’ally — and here they can’t come and pick at a feller and bullyrag him so.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
After the grub's served out, there you are with your jaws empty, with a pile of meat in front of you, and in the middle of a lot of pals that chaff and bullyrag you! ". From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
So we put the sheet back on the line that night, and stole one out of her closet; and kept on putting it back and stealing it again for a couple of days till she didn't know how many sheets she had any more, and she didn't CARE, and warn't a-going to bullyrag the rest of her soul out about it, and wouldn't count them again not to save her life; she druther die first. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
Why, if I was to say what I'd got inside my head you'd either begin to bullyrag me -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference
I don't ever get enough to eat, gen'ally -- and here they can't come and pick at a feller and bullyrag him so. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4.] Reference
The pro-assites swore there was no use in carrying the thing further - it was as good as decided already - for "Tom B. Devill could shykeen and bullyrag Ned. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
So we put the sheet back on the line that night, and stole one out of her closet; and kept on putting it back and stealing it again for a couple of days till she didn’t know how many sheets she had any more, and she didn’t CARE, and warn’t a-going to bullyrag the rest of her soul out about it, and wouldn’t count them again not to save her life; she druther die first. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
A kinstructor bullyrag me afore all the t'other chaps fur? ". From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
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