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1. A person who deliberately intimidates or is cruel to weaker people
    
2. An uncultured, aggressive, rude, noisy troublemaker
   - tough [informal], hooligan, ruffian, roughneck [informal], rowdy, yob [Brit, informal], yobo [Brit, informal], yobbo [Brit, informal], ned [UK, informal], scally [UK, informal]
    
3. A hired thug
    
4. Beef cured or pickled in brine
   - bully beef, corned beef, corn beef

1. Excellent
   "he did a bully job";
   - bang-up [N. Amer, informal], corking [Brit, informal], cracking [Brit, informal], dandy, great, groovy [informal], keen, neat, nifty [informal], not bad [informal], peachy, slap-up [informal], swell [informal], smashing [Brit, informal], old, not half bad [informal], grouse [Austral, NZ, informal], ripper [Austral, informal], lovely

1. Be bossy towards
   "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young";
   - strong-arm, browbeat, bullyrag [N. Amer, informal], ballyrag [N. Amer, informal], boss around [informal], hector, push around [informal], boss, push about [informal]
    
2. Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
   - browbeat, swagger

Derived forms: bullied, bullying, bullies

See also: good

Type of: aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, beef, blarney, boeuf, cajole, coax, goon [informal], hood [slang], hoodlum, intimidate, inveigle, palaver [informal, rare], punk [N. Amer, informal], strong-armer, sweet-talk [informal], thug, tough [informal], toughie [informal], wheedle

Encyclopedia: Bully, Rhone