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† bully-rock, bully-rook Obs.
[Of uncertain origin; if not f. bully n.1 + rook, the form and some of the senses must be due to popular etymology. Cf. bully-rake in bully n.1 5.]
1. = bully n.1 1; jolly comrade, boon companion.
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iii. 2 What saies my Bully Rooke? 1697Praise of Yorksh. Ale, My Bully Rocks, I've been experienced long In most of Liquors.
2. = bully n.1 3; a bravo, hired ruffian. (In quot. 1673 app. a bully who is also a rook or sharper.)
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. liv, Ye Bully-rocks, And rogues. 1673Char. Coffee House in Harl. Misc. (1810) I. 469 The bully-rook makes it his bubbling pond, where he angles for fops. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne III. 7 It properly belongs to Kings only to..laugh at those bully-rocks. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. III. 44 A stout swordsman and hector as spiritual relative and bully-rock so to speak. |