Word Meanings - BULLIRAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.

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• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• BADGER STATE
  Wisconsin; -- a nickname.
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
• BULLY; BULLY BEEF
  Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
• BULLY TREE
  The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
• BULLY
  1. Jovial and blustering; dashing. "Bless thee, bully doctor." Shak. 2. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• BADGERER
  1. One who badgers. 2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting.
• BULLYRAG
  See BULLIRAG
• BADGER-LEGGED
  Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.
• BADGER GAME
  The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure.
• BULLYROCK
  A bully. Shak.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CHORALLY
  In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
• SCRIPTURALLY
  In a scriptural manner.
• DEXTRALLY
  (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
• NEUTRALLY
  In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.
• PECTORALLY
  As connected with the breast.
• IMMORALLY
  In an immoral manner; wickedly.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;