bullyrag

Examples

• I managed to bullyrag giddoen into splitting the "Five Courses of Seafood," each of which takes over one of the five basic flavors hot, bitter, salty, sweet, sour for a harmonious and tasty balance of humours, or chi, or whatever version of malarkey they have in Vietnam.

  Kenneth Hite's Journal

• I tried to bullyrag him into keeping on, but it was no go.

  Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)

• There are some politicians -- and some strong ones, too -- who would rather stand pat in a wrong cause and bullyrag and face down a righteous majority in a convention, or a House, than to be right from the very start, and win out without any fight at all.

  Tattlings of a Retired Politician

• One of the first things a detective has to do is to surprise his man, and then immediately begin to bullyrag and overbear him; pretend that all is known, that the game is up.

  The Voice in the Fog

• So we put the sheet back on the line that night, and stole one out of her closet; and kept on putting it back and stealing it again for a couple of days till she didn't know how many sheets she had any more, and she didn't CARE, and warn't a-going to bullyrag the rest of her soul out about it, and wouldn't count them again not to save her life; she druther die first.

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn