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  • verb Present participle of bullyrag.

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Examples

  • "Sir," Murphy answered, so softly and carelessly that it irritated the mate to further bullyragging.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • I was never out of the saddle, from one end of the train to the other, badgering them to keep up, seeing to the welfare of the beasts, bullyragging the guards to keep their positions on the flanks-and all the time with my guts churning as I watched the skyline, dreading the sight of mounted figures, or the tiny dust-cloud far across the plain that would herald approaching enemies.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • For all that Idalia said that Merryvale didn't have guards the way Armethalieh did, he guessed the village must have some way to keep the peace, and a lot of the folks in the crowd, human and Centaur both, looked big and strong enough to make even Cormo think twice about any bullyragging he might want to get up to.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Further, there will not be allowed in any Man's Room any nagging, hectoring, bitching, kvetching, carping, bullyragging or any other such activity by anyone not possessed of testicles.

    "Should we have a White House Council on Men and Boys?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • Seldom merely shunned, suspected gays often run a gantlet of macho bullyragging.

    Homoeroticism In The Ranks 2008

  • And at last they brought out the prettiest, neatest young lady-crow that ever was seen, and set her in the middle, and all began abusing and vilifying, and rating, and bullyragging at her, because she had stolen no grouse-eggs, and had actually dared to say that she would not steal any.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • For all that Idalia said that Merryvale didn't have guards the way Armethalieh did, he guessed the village must have some way to keep the peace, and a lot of the folks in the crowd, human and Centaur both, looked big and strong enough to make even Cormo think twice about any bullyragging he might want to get up to.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • I was never out of the saddle, from one end of the train to the other, badgering them to keep up, seeing to the welfare of the beasts, bullyragging the guards to keep their positions on the flanks-and all the time with my guts churning as I watched the skyline, dreading the sight of mounted figures, or the tiny dust-cloud far across the plain that would herald approaching enemies.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • I was never out of the saddle, from one end of the train to the other, badgering them to keep up, seeing to the welfare of the beasts, bullyragging the guards to keep their positions on the flanks-and all the time with my guts churning as I watched the skyline, dreading the sight of mounted figures, or the tiny dust-cloud far across the plain that would herald approaching enemies.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • When he found out the kid had left his cabin without telling him and that the Captain was bullyragging him-Wow!

    The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955

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