bullyrag

Example Sentences

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Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Sunday he allowed Mrs. Davis to bullyrag him into a tentative engagement.

From What's-His-Name by Fisher, Harrison

And when she started to bullyrag you, it was all I could do—But it won't last long now.

From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

One of the first things a detective has to do is to surprise his man, and then immediately begin to bullyrag and overbear him; pretend that all is known, that the game is up.

From The Voice in the Fog by MacGrath, Harold

He was a born boss, and loved to command, and to jaw and dispute with inferiors and harry them and bullyrag them.

From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Twain, Mark