subs. (old).—A BULLY (q.v.); a BRAGGADOCIO (q.v.).
1598. JONSON, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 2. When was Bobadill here, your captain? that rogue, that foist, that fencing BURGULLIAN.
1824. NARES, Glossary, s.v. BURGULLIAN. Supposed to mean a bully or braggadocio; and conjectured to be a term of contempt, invented upon the overthrow of the Bastard of Burgundy in a contest with Anthony Woodville, in Smithfield, 1467.
