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How to pronounce “bully”
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Pronunciation guide for bully
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of bully with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Lemon Andersen performs "Please don't take my Air Jordans" 8 minutes, 56 seconds
of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know
- Definition summary
- 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. [from late 17th c.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce bully
Lemon Andersen performs "Please don't take my Air Jordans" 8 minutes, 56 seconds
of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “bully”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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. [from late 17th c.]
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- A hired thug.
- A sex worker's minder.
- (uncountable) Bully beef.
- (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. A common bully, Gobiomorphus cotidianus
- (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
- (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
- (obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
- (field hockey) 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.
- (mining) A miner's hammer.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
- (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
- [Adjective]
- (US, slang, dated) Very good.
- (slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
- [Interjection]
- (often followed by for) Well done; often sarcastic in modern use.
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