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BULLY (of uncertain origin, but possibly connected with a Teutonic word seen in many compounds, as the Low Ger. bullerjaan, meaning " noisy "; the word has also, with less probability, been derived from the Dutch beel, and Ger. Buhle, a lover) , originally a fine, swaggering fellow, as in " Bully
Dream , later an overbearing ruffian
coward
term
early
American
slang
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