[f. BULLY v. + -ING2.] That bullies or acts like a bully; domineering, menacing.

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1746.  W. Horsley, Fool, No. 22 (1748), I. 153. A Rock which … bids the bullying Sea-God Defiance.

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1812.  Examiner, 24 Aug., 541/1. The bullying intolerance of William Cobbett.

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1831.  Scott, Diary, in Lockhart (1839), X. 50. No bullying Mirabeau to assail, no eloquent Maury to defend.

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