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Bullying

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noun

a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.

Archaic. a man hired to do violence.

Obsolete. a pimp; procurer.

Obsolete. good friend; good fellow.

Obsolete. sweetheart; darling.

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verb (used with object)

to act the bully toward; intimidate; domineer.

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verb (used without object)

to be loudly arrogant and overbearing.

adjective

Informal. fine; excellent; very good.

dashing; jovial; high-spirited.

interjection

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Informal. good! well done!

Origin:
1530–40; < Middle Dutch boele lover

Related forms

bul·ly·a·ble, adjective

un·bul·lied, adjective

un·bul·ly·ing, adjective

Synonyms
6. cow, browbeat, coerce; terrorize, tyrannize.

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But the nurse's visit typically wasn't used to treat physical injuries from bullying.

Invitations to quid pro quo arrangements could be reconceived as bullying.

If you can get away with bullying, then you keep bullying.

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But the nurse's visit typically wasn't used to treat physical injuries from bullying.

Invitations to quid pro quo arrangements could be reconceived as bullying.

If you can get away with bullying, then you keep bullying.

Hummingbirds compete by challenging and bullying each other.

We might think that bullies are quite different from the victims of bullying.

Bullying and cyber-bullying have been making lots of headlines in the past several weeks.

Stories about bullying students are rampant in schools.

Law-school professors, for instance, are famous for bullying their underlings.

Instead of bullying and scaring people, the prophets of energy technology are attempting to seduce them.

Some of the posters here are still suffering from testosterone drop and low testosterone is linked to bullying.

It's bad enough that bullying and gender-norming starts as early as kindergarten, if not before.

Delaying or interfering with a response to bullying in criminal form is itself a criminal matter.

It is the prose of the school swot responding to a bullying outside world by becoming more and more swotty.

Bouncing back from insults, slights, or the endless forms of bullying is one of life's more vexing challenges.

In many schools, an e-reader equipped child may be relatively rare, which could lead to teasing and/or bullying situations.

It is the kind of bullying behavior you might expect from unruly teenagers.

But in the end it was not the bullying communists who shaped the wiry little painter.

Rather they serve to suggest that you have no valid argument, and consequently must resort to bullying tactics.

To that end, users will be able to flag inappropriate content if they think a post is bullying or damaging.

On the other hand, he can be impulsive, mercurial and bullying.

In that sense is an gloomy invention, and an extension of bullying from the individual to the social level.

It's the cost factor, along with the bullying factor, that gives the government pause.

Parents are also worried about the resurgence of bullying and suicides among schoolchildren.

And threatening his employer unless they yield to your pressure, is bullying and blackmail.

Faculty members, in addition to bullying each other, also intimidate students.

New research shows a link between bullying at the office and sleep problems at home.

Giuma had used threats and bullying to get favors for his son.

Adult bullying in the workplace, however, can be extremely harmful to its victims-even more.

Bloomberg announced regulations that are meant to combat bullying in city schools that is based on bias.

It's really hard to do, but if you can develop the ability to let bullying behavior slide off your back, you'd be a lot happier.

The highly gifted child will typically have no intellectual peers and endure both boredom and bullying when kept at grade level.

Why doctors need to stop bullying nurses and other hospital personnel.

Most of my students are okay, but the ones who are arrogant, somewhat bullying or disrepectful really get to.

China has taken to bullying and even swindling its suitors.

Still, some parents questioned how different today's version of bullying is compared with that experienced by past generations.

In a famous case, high-school sports stars were accused of raping younger girls and bullying others into silence.

Bullying is a familiar problem to many teens, especially boys who are more timid than others.

The concern is that bullying is still perceived by many educators and parents as a problem that involves physical contact.

Bullying skeptics and sneering at those who raise questions is no way to regain public trust.

Argentine officials have kept up their bullying tone to the end: they vow not to pay a cent to those who reject the deal.

The sad ends to their short lives shine a harsh light on the insidious scourge of the homophobic bullying of children.

But sometimes the cliquey nature of the forum leads to over-snarky comments and out-right bullying.

New research shows that victims of work bullying often have sleep problems once they get home.

Bullies enjoy bullying regardless of the god disposition of those he/she abuses.

There was no crown prince to lead the party after him, and a growing public perception that he was arrogant and bullying.

Many men respond to bullying by externalizing their feelings, especially through sarcasm/wit.

Golding had a bullying streak and he drank too much.

She may be the target of some teasing or bullying and may feel a bit left out of the social scene.

Such bullying shows no more sign of easing than does the growth.

One of the reasons is also the bullying that takes place at some universities.

Officers say that contract soldiers are more interested in their pay than in bullying.

Just so you don't think he's heartless, my husband did not wish to let him fend for himself during the bullying moment.

One mite say it's jus bullying but the question is why.

In this western, a notorious gunfighter's son is captured by a ruthless, bullying sheriff.

The topic of workplace bullying clearly exposed a raw nerve, bringing mail with many accounts.

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Word Origin & History

bully

1530s, originally "sweetheart," applied to either sex, from Du. boel "lover, brother," probably dim. of M.H.G. buole "brother," of uncertain origin (cf. Ger. buhle "lover"). Meaning deteriorated 17c. through "fine fellow," "blusterer," to "harasser of the weak" (1680s, from bully-ruffian, 1650s). Perhaps

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this was by influence of bull (n.1), but a connecting sense between "lover" and "ruffian" may be in "protector of a prostitute," which was one sense of bully (though not specifically attested until 1706). The verb is first attested 1710. The expression meaning "worthy, jolly, admirable" (esp. in 1864 U.S. slang bully for you!) is first attested 1680s, and preserves an earlier, positive sense of the word.

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