ballyrag

VERB
  1. be bossy towards
    Her big brother always bullied her when she was young
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How To Use ballyrag In A Sentence

  • Only don't think I want to ballyrag about the money. Ralph the Heir
  • Naggeneen," said the King, "it's trouble enough you've made for all of us, and it's ballyragging enough you and all the rest of us have got for it, and we don't know, as His Majesty said, what more is to come. Fairies and Folk of Ireland
  • Faix, it's well come up wid the likes o 'you to ballyrag over me. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • The members of the Board had been ballyragged around the country last year as the worst health administrators ever.
  • You get a chap like Norris, who, when he loses his hair, has got just about as much tact as a rhinoceros, going and ballyragging the man, and no wonder he won't say anything. A Prefect's Uncle
  • When handling with creditors and assemblage agencies don't permit them ballyrag you or position you over unpaid balances. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid -- or young woman rather -- standing at the door crying her eyes out. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • I hope this will be a lesson to you, Doyle, and will teach you not to ballyrag your customers in future. General John Regan
  • He said afterwards that it was a bit too thick on poor old Leonora to be ballyragged any more. The Good Soldier
  • He said afterwards that it was a bit too thick on poor old Leonora to be ballyragged any more.
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