Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bull-bait
verb. phr. (? nonce word).—To bully; to hector; to badger.
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1860. DICKENS, Great Expectations, xviii., 82. ‘Which I meantersay,’ cried Joe, ‘that if you come into my place BULL-BAITING and badgering me, come out!’
