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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bullyrag.

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Examples

  • You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • The famous Mr. Johnson is a shire-fellow of mine, and very proud I am of it, and reckon it among the greatest events of my life that he has bullyragged me soundly for differing from him, and being right, about a line of Virgil he had misquoted in my hearing.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • It is unpleasant to have to sit at meals and listen to the only girl you have ever really loved being bullyragged by an old lady with six chins.

    Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928

  • He had bullyragged a fair sized fortune out of the manufacturing business before he was 35.

    Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

  • He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted.

    Joan of Arc of the North Woods Holman Day 1900

  • He added in his own mind that he did not intend to allow a certain topic between him and Lana Corson to get cold while he was being bullyragged by two elderly gentlemen in that study.

    All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

  • Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • No blood flowed till February 4, 1898, when a skirmish, set off by the shot of a bullyragged American sentry, led to war.

    History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

  • Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

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