Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bully; a pimp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A lewd man; also, a bully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
lewd man. - noun obsolete A
bully .
Etymologies
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Contraction of bellyswagger.
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Examples
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But, look to thyself, thou impudent belswagger: I will he revenged; I will.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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