The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to BULLY

 

BELL SWAGGER		A noisy bullying fellow.
BLOSS or BLOWEN		The pretended wife of a bully, or shoplifter.
BLUSTER		To talk big, to hector or bully.
BUCKEEN		A bully. IRISH.
BUGABOE		A scare-babe, or bully-beggar.
BULL BEGGAR, or BULLY BEGGAR		An imaginary being with which children are threatened by servants and nurses, like raw head and bloody bones.
BULLY		A cowardly fellow, who gives himself airs of great bravery. A bully huff cap; a hector. See HECTOR.
BULLY BACK		A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit to the impositions of the mother abbess, or bawd; and who also sometimes pretends to be the husband of one of the ladies, and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom he finds with her. See GREENHORN.
BULLY COCK		One who foments quarrels in order to rob the persons quarrelling.
BULLY RUFFIANS		Highwaymen who attack passengers with paths and imprecations.
BULLY TRAP		A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in.
CACAFEOGO		A shite-fire, a furious braggadocio or bully huff.
CAPTAIN SHARP		A cheating bully, or one in a set of gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting roguery, refuses to pay what he has lost.
DING BOY		A rogue, a hector, a bully, or sharper.
FLASH MAN		A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
HECTOR		bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.
HUFF		To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house.
KIMBAW		To trick, cheat or cozen; also to beat or to bully. Let's kimbaw the cull; let's bully the fellow. To set one's arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced a-kimbo, is to rest one's hands on the hips, keeping the elbows square, and sticking out from the body; an insolent bullying attitude.
KNIGHT OF THE BLADE		A bully.
SLASHER		A bullying, riotous fellow. IRISH.
SWAGGER		To bully, brag, or boast, also to strut.
SWELL		A gentleman. A well-dressed map. The flashman bounced the swell of all his blunt; the girl's bully frightened the gentleman out of all his money.