Difference between Bully and Ruffian

BULLY vs RUFFIAN: NOUN

In Tasmania, a species of blenny, Blennius tasmanicus.
A degraded fellow who protects fallen women and lives on their gains.
A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow: a familiar term of address.
Canned or pickled beef. Also attrib., as bully beef.
A Cornish name of the shanny. Also bullycod.
In field-hockey, the beginning of a game and the starting of each goal. A player from each side stands facing the sideline, and strikes first the ground and then the stick of his opponent alternately three times, after which either player may strike the ball: as soon as it is so struck the ball is in play.
A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing fellow; a swaggerer; a swashbuckler; one who hectors, browbeats, or domineers.
The bullace or sloe.
A foot-ball scrimmage.
The foreman or boss of a logging-camp.
In mining, a kind of hammer used in striking the drill or borer. In its simplest form it has a square section at the eye and an octagonal face.
A cruel and brutal fellow
Bully beef.
A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
A hired thug.
A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
A brisk, dashing fellow.
A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous, who threatens, intimidates, or badgers people who are smaller or weaker than he is; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
Same as bully-tree. Also called bully-bay and bully-berry tree.

A tough, lawless or bullying person.
A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
. The devil.
A boisterous, brutal fellow; a fellow ready for any desperate crime; a robber; a cutthroat; a murderer.
. A pimp; a pander; a paramour.
A thug or gangster.
A tough or rowdy person.
A cruel and brutal fellow
A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.

To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully{1} toward.

Dandy, Cracking, Good, Cool, Smashing, Roughneck, Swagger, Rowdy, Hooligan, Tough, Hector, Yobbo, Yob, Ruffian, Browbeat

Rascal, Rapscallion, Lout, Goon, Thug, Hoodlum, Hood, Yobo, Tough, Rowdy, Yobbo, Hooligan, Yob, Bully, Roughneck

Swell, Great, Dandy, Cracking, Good, Cool, Smashing, Swagger, Rowdy, Hooligan, Tough, Yobbo, Yob, Ruffian, Browbeat

Scallywag, Rascal, Rapscallion, Lout, Goon, Thug, Hoodlum, Hood, Yobo, Tough, Rowdy, Yobbo, Hooligan, Yob, Bully

They are the Champions of ABKC Champion Carolina Bully Farms, you can easily find them in the Bully Girl magazine.
Do not retaliate against a bully or let the bully see how much he or she has upset you.
American Bully Kennel home of the Northest Elite Bully Kennel.
Pyro temps on your Bully Dog GT or Watchdog tuner with the Bully Dog Sensor Docking Station.
While boys may bully others using more physical means; girls often bully others by social exclusion.
When someone stands up to an emotional bully, the bully is forced to change.
So the bully pulpit is no longer going to be used to bully.
The labels are ubiquitous: active bully, passive bully, lieutenant, henchman, bystander, ally, hero, and, of course, victim.
Bully Breed lovers and ABKC American Bully Kennel Club enthusiasts worldwide.
When a bully threatened to eat Biff, Buford, enraged, beat up the bully, and in turn became the bully himself.