bully boyn.

Brit.

/ˈbʊlɪ bɔɪ/, U.S.

/ˈbʊli ˌbɔɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bully n.¹, boy n.¹

Etymology: < bully n.¹ + boy n.¹

1. A young male associate whose company or friendship one values greatly; a good fellow; a good friend. Also (U.S.) bully boy with a glass eye, in the same sense. Cf. bully n.¹ 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1609 T. Ravenscroft Deuteromelia 6 He that is a bully boy, come pledge me on the ground.

1715 C. Johnson Country Lasses ii. i. 22 What is it? Out with it, my little Bully Boy.

1802 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. `27 Nov. 479 If Fox will be our bully-boy, With him we'll kiss the ground.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 333 But pard, he was a rustler! You ought to seen him get started once. He was a bully boy with a glass eye!

1933 Tatler 22 Mar. p. xvi /2 I heard certain individual voices. ‘Nick Warren, ha, ha, ha!’ ‘His lordship's a bully boy!’ ‘Three cheers for my lord!’

2. A tough, aggressive young man; a ruffian; spec. a hired thug. Now also in somewhat weakened sense: a man or boy who is a bully. Cf. bully n.¹ 3.

ΚΠ

1881 B. Stoker Under Sunset 113 ‘Why are you crying?’ said Ruffin, the bully boy.

1963 New Statesman 30 Aug. 245/1 Tenants..told one how Rachman's bully-boys had beaten them up.

1990 Musician Aug. 28/3 I do retain ultimate control over the way the music sounds, but I'm not a fascist bullyboy. I love being part of the group.

2020 Economist 18 Jan. 47/1 When thousands of Iranians took to the streets to voice their anger the IRGC sent its bully boys to knock back the crowds.

Compounds

As a modifier (in sense 2), with the sense ‘characteristic or reminiscent of a bully boy; that is a bully boy; bullying’, esp. in bully boy tactics.

ΚΠ

1940 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 25 Mar. 6/1 The American press was unsparing in its criticism of the French and British governments for knuckling under to the bully-boy tactics of the German leader.

1969 Harper's Mag. Oct. 101/2 White male counterreaction: bullyboy spoiling for a fight to preserve masculinity that has just been thumbnosed by a new skinny kid on the block.

1981 R. D. Edwards Corridors of Death (1991) xxvii. 117 Knowing him, he'll have started with bully-boy tactics, and found it difficult to climb down later.

1991 Art in Amer. Apr. 43/3 Underneath Pollock's bully-boy behavior ‘was a shy, sensitive boy, yearning to be liked’.

2011 Independent 28 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 7/2 Bully-boy head prefects and their sniggering acolytes telling us to pull our socks up, stop being greedy and go for a run did little to help then, and will make little difference now.

2020 Basingstoke Gaz. (Nexis) 27 July A councillor who is set to make a decision over the future of Hampshire's libraries has been accused of using ‘bully boy tactics’ by campaigners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	bully boy
释义	bully boyn. Brit. /ˈbʊlɪ bɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈbʊli ˌbɔɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bully n.¹, boy n.¹ Etymology: < bully n.¹ + boy n.¹ 1. A young male associate whose company or friendship one values greatly; a good fellow; a good friend. Also (U.S.) bully boy with a glass eye, in the same sense. Cf. bully n.¹ 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1609 T. Ravenscroft Deuteromelia 6 He that is a bully boy, come pledge me on the ground. 1715 C. Johnson Country Lasses ii. i. 22 What is it? Out with it, my little Bully Boy. 1802 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. `27 Nov. 479 If Fox will be our bully-boy, With him we'll kiss the ground. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 333 But pard, he was a rustler! You ought to seen him get started once. He was a bully boy with a glass eye! 1933 Tatler 22 Mar. p. xvi /2 I heard certain individual voices. ‘Nick Warren, ha, ha, ha!’ ‘His lordship's a bully boy!’ ‘Three cheers for my lord!’ 2. A tough, aggressive young man; a ruffian; spec. a hired thug. Now also in somewhat weakened sense: a man or boy who is a bully. Cf. bully n.¹ 3. ΚΠ 1881 B. Stoker Under Sunset 113 ‘Why are you crying?’ said Ruffin, the bully boy. 1963 New Statesman 30 Aug. 245/1 Tenants..told one how Rachman's bully-boys had beaten them up. 1990 Musician Aug. 28/3 I do retain ultimate control over the way the music sounds, but I'm not a fascist bullyboy. I love being part of the group. 2020 Economist 18 Jan. 47/1 When thousands of Iranians took to the streets to voice their anger the IRGC sent its bully boys to knock back the crowds. Compounds As a modifier (in sense 2), with the sense ‘characteristic or reminiscent of a bully boy; that is a bully boy; bullying’, esp. in bully boy tactics. ΚΠ 1940 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 25 Mar. 6/1 The American press was unsparing in its criticism of the French and British governments for knuckling under to the bully-boy tactics of the German leader. 1969 Harper's Mag. Oct. 101/2 White male counterreaction: bullyboy spoiling for a fight to preserve masculinity that has just been thumbnosed by a new skinny kid on the block. 1981 R. D. Edwards Corridors of Death (1991) xxvii. 117 Knowing him, he'll have started with bully-boy tactics, and found it difficult to climb down later. 1991 Art in Amer. Apr. 43/3 Underneath Pollock's bully-boy behavior ‘was a shy, sensitive boy, yearning to be liked’. 2011 Independent 28 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 7/2 Bully-boy head prefects and their sniggering acolytes telling us to pull our socks up, stop being greedy and go for a run did little to help then, and will make little difference now. 2020 Basingstoke Gaz. (Nexis) 27 July A councillor who is set to make a decision over the future of Hampshire's libraries has been accused of using ‘bully boy tactics’ by campaigners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1609
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