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bullylike

adj

Etymology

From bully + -like.

  1. derived from *bōlô✻
  2. derived from *buolo✻
  3. derived from boel
  4. derived from boel
  5. suffixed as bullylike — “bully + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bully.

    • He was skilled, a natural, in things mechanical. He liked to boss and was often swaggering and bullylike in his playground behavior.

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