bully
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Pronunciation[change]
Noun[change]
- (countable) A bully is a mean or nasty person.
- The bully kicked me in the leg today.
- I was called nasty names by the bully at school yesterday.
- (countable) A bully is a hired thug.
- (uncountable) Bully is bully beef.
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- (transitive) If you bully someone, you are mean or nasty and you act aggressively towards them.
- I bullied the other boy today by hitting him in the arm.
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- (old, no longer used) Something that is bully is very good.
- The weather today is bully!