LekhoriLekhoriA person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
A playground bully pushed a girl off the swing.
A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
Besides, bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in; and men of trick and cunning are not always men of desperate resolves.
A hired thug.
Mr. Fisher returned from town... he had learnt that our opponents intended to shift the scene of operations to the Chats... We understood that they had hired two bullies for the purpose of deciding the matter par voie de fait. Mr Fisher hired two of the same description, who were supposed to be more than a match for the opposition party.
Well done; often sarcastic in modern use.
Bully, she's finally asked for that promotion!
From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( + -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (...
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To act aggressively towards.
The Potters know their strengths and played to them perfectly here, out-muscling Bolton in midfield and bullying the visitors' back-line at every opportunity.