bully
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈbʊli/
- Offensive
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- After being pushed around all week by the local bully, he decided to stand up for himself.
- bullies and victims
- school bully
- bullies and bystanders
So I sat there next to the school bully going, keep reading.
- So I sat there next to the school bully going, keep reading.
- I feel like it just gave bullies, like, more ideas.
- Again, I don't know what motivated my bullies by a need for status.
- They were bullies and thought they could be.
- I've always had a thing about bullies, a dislike of bullies.
- There's a girl he likes these two bullies knows he likes the girl.
- I love protecting tax people from the big bully of the IRS, and here I am.
- In the last video, Noah was a nerd, so the bully called him Noah the Nerd.
- I am a reformed, reformed bully because I didn't bully people.
- You're a horrible, nasty, aggressive bully in poker.
- And while all people with these characteristics don't bully, nearly all bullies have these characteristics.
- I was never a bully and and I'd never liked fighting.
Examples
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Everybody around here hates you, you are a bully and all of us hate you.
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Gus Matthews was easily the biggest bully in Brookdale.
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So I sat there next to the school bully going, keep reading.
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Let go of me, you big bully!
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The profile of a bully is he finds targets.
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There were bullies, older kids, bigger kids.
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Many people feel that the typical bully comes from a broken home, but this is not necessarily true.
Academic text (2008) -
Most adults can remember incidents of bullying in which they were the bullies or the intended victims.
Academic text (2008) -
Aaron is framed as an aggressive bully who always hangs out with a gang of kids.
Academic text (2008) -
Sulo and Milvin, the school's principal bullies, had gone, and Peter was a big boy.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
86
5.3
A person who treats someone cruelly or violently, often over time
13
4.9
A person who is unkind to other people, often said by children
11
6.3
A person who repeatedly bothers, threatens, or scares others
4
8.3
A person who harms or tricks another person to control them
1
7.5
A person who scares or threatens others to make them do what they want
1
5.8
A person who tries to make others afraid by saying they will hurt them
Antonyms
Compounds
- UK
A tropical hardwood tree that gives balata, a rubber-like gum, and heavy red-brown wood
How Aggressive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bully comes from an old Dutch word boel meaning 'lover' or 'friend', but the meaning changed over time from a 'bold fellow' to someone who uses force or threats. So a bully today is a person who intimidates or harms people who are weaker.