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

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

And wills fur it to live, and fights fur it to, and determines that it must, and jest natcherally tries fur to bullyrag death into going away.

From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don

And if you can’t lift it, then leave it for another trip, and bullyrag those skinflints at H. M. & Co.’s to send a man down to help you.

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward

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