bullirag

English edit

Etymology edit

Compare bully and rag (“to scold, rail”). Compare ballarag.

Verb edit

bullirag (third-person singular simple present bullirags, present participle bulliragging, simple past and past participle bulliragged)

(archaic, transitive) To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bullirag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)