bully

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BULL'Y, noun A noisy, blustering overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces, than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels. BULL'Y, verb transitive To insult and overbear with noise and blustering menaces. BULL'Y, , verb intransitive To be noisy and quarrelsome.
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