bully

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A 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.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim A hired thug.
4. isim A sex worker's minder.

   “The Proclamation Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice were more concerned with obscene literature […] than with hands-on street battles with prostitutes and their bullies […].”

5. isim Bully beef.
6. isim A brisk, dashing fellow.

   “What sayest thou, Bully Bottom?”

7. isim The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
8. isim Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
9. isim An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade

   “Frae Team Gut to Whitley, we' coals black an' brown For the Amphitrite loaded, the keel had come down— But the bullies ower neet had their gobs se oft wet, That the nyem o' the ship yen an' a' did forget.”

10. isim A companion; mate (male or female).
11. isim A darling, sweetheart (male or female).

    “I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string / I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?”

12. isim A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
13. isim A miner's hammer.
14. fiil To intimidate (someone) as a bully.

    “You shouldn't bully people for being weak.”

15. fiil 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.”

16. sıfat Very good.

    “a bully horse”

17. sıfat Jovial and blustering.

    “Bless thee, bully doctor!”

18. ünlem Well done; often sarcastic in modern use.

    “Bully, she's finally asked for that promotion!”