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  • adjective Susceptible to being bullied.

Etymologies

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bully +‎ -able

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Examples

  • When I first reached a "bullyable" age, I found myself number three of a set of five boys.

    Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • From everything I observed at first hand back in the day, if large numbers of boys are interested in you sexually, then you won't fall into the bullyable category - and that's an understatement.

    Archive 2009-01-01 juliette 2009

  • From everything I observed at first hand back in the day, if large numbers of boys are interested in you sexually, then you won't fall into the bullyable category - and that's an understatement.

    A Cock and Bully Story juliette 2009

  • The War Office phalanx closed its ranks, and fought tooth and nail; but it was defeated: the Bison was bullyable.

    Florence Nightingale: Part III 1918

  • True, it was in the kitchen of the two Sams, Sam and Samantha Clark, who run the acclaimed restaurant Moro and are therefore well-versed in the art of getting recalcitrant people to do things in a culinary setting, and the children involved were all smaller than the assembled adults and therefore eminently bullyable.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

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