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Definition of Bullyragged
1. bullyrag [v] - See also: bullyrag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullyragged
Literary usage of Bullyragged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"If they can only get the singin' choked off, they think they can stand the prayin',
rough as it is to be bullyragged so much that way. ..."
2. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... appoints me to finish this; but how can a headless man perform an intelligent
function? I have been bullyragged all day by the builder, by his foreman ..."
3. The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks (1920)
"The vagrant artist in him, in fact, was always protesting against the lot his
other self had so fully accepted, the lot of being "bullyragged," as he said, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1870)
"But first the Duc de Berri gave them another taste of his quality :— properly
bullyragged, I'md .' It "The whole line was in the midst of this business, ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"18701 never heard of his fightin' anybody but his own kind, and when he was
bullyragged.—F. Bret Harte, ' The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin.' Bummer. ..."
6. Music (1894)
"... sented themselves before the Lord, Satan came also,” and, I suspect, belonged
in the choir and bullyragged the Pastor. But with all my tribulations no ..."
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