BULLY vs SWELL: NOUN
- Bully beef.
- 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.
- The bullace or sloe.
- The foreman or boss of a logging-camp.
- A foot-ball scrimmage.
- 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.
- Canned or pickled beef. Also attrib., as bully beef.
- In Tasmania, a species of blenny, Blennius tasmanicus.
- A Cornish name of the shanny. Also bullycod.
- A degraded fellow who protects fallen women and lives on their gains.
- A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow: a familiar term of address.
- A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
- 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
- A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing fellow; a swaggerer; a swashbuckler; one who hectors, browbeats, or domineers.
- In a cannon, an enlargement near the muzzle: it is not present in guns as now made.
- In a gunstock, the enlarged and thickened part.
- In geology, an extensive area from whose central region the strata dip quaquaversally to a moderate amount, so as to give rise to a geologically and topographically peculiar type of structure.
- In coal-mining, a channel washed out or in some way eroded in a coal-seam, and afterward filled up with clay or sand. Also called, in some English coal-fields, a horse, and in others a want; sometimes also a horse-back, and in the South Wales coal-field a swine-back.
- A man of great claims to admiration; one of distinguished personality; hence, one who puts on such an appearance, or endeavors to appear important or distinguished; a dandy: as, a howling swell (a conspicuously great swell).
- In a stop-motion of a loom, a curved lever in the shuttle-box, which raises a catch out of engagement with the stop or stop-finger whenever the shuttle fairly enters the shuttle-box, but which, when the shuttle fails to enter, permits such engagement, thus bringing into action mechanism that stops the loom. Compare stop-motion.
- The act or process of swelling.
- The condition of being swollen.
- A swollen part; a bulge or protuberance.
- A long wave on water that moves continuously without breaking.
- A rise in the land; a rounded elevation.
- One who is fashionably dressed or socially prominent.
- A crescendo followed by a gradual diminuendo.
- A device on an instrument, such as an organ or harpsichord, for regulating volume.
- The act of swelling; augmentation in bulk; expansion; distention; increase in volume, intensity, number, force, etc.
- A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- A crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- An elevation above a level, especially a gradual and even rise: as, a swell of land.
- A wave, especially when long and unbroken; collectively, the waves or fluctuations of the sea after a storm, often called ground-swell; billows; a surge: as, a heavy swell.
- In music: A gradual increase and following decrease in loudness or force; a crescendo combined with a diminuendo. Compare messa di voce.
- The sign ⟨ or ⟩, used to denote the above.
- A mechanical contrivance in the harpsichord and in both the pipe-organ and the reed-organ by which the loudness of the tones may be varied by opening or shutting the lid or set of blinds of a closed box, case, or chamber within which are the sounding strings, pipes, or vibrators.
- Same as swell-box, swell-keyboard, swell-organ, or swell-pedal. See also organ, 6.
- The sign indicating such a crescendo.
BULLY vs SWELL: ADJECTIVE
- Very good
- Jovial and blustering; dashing.
- Fine; excellent.
- Very good; excellent.
- Very good
- Fashionably elegant; stylish.
- Excellent; wonderful.
BULLY vs SWELL: VERB
- Be bossy towards
- To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
- To act aggressively towards.
- Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- Expand abnormally
- Cause to become swollen
- Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- As of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things
- Come up
BULLY vs SWELL: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To act as a bully{1}.
- To rise from within.
- To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.
- To grow in loudness or intensity.
- To bulge out, as a sail.
- To rise or extend above the surrounding level, as clouds.
- To rise in swells, as the sea.
- To be or become filled or puffed up, as with pride, arrogance, or anger.
- To cause to increase in volume, size, number, degree, or intensity.
- To fill with emotion.
- To increase in force, size, number, or degree.
BULLY vs SWELL: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully{1} toward.
- To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase.
- To aggravate; to heighten.
BULLY vs SWELL: INTERJECTION
- Well done! Excellent!
- Well done!
- N/A
BULLY vs SWELL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To act the bully toward; overbear with bluster or menaces.
- To make fearful; overawe; daunt; terrorize.
- Synonyms To browbeat, hector, domineer over.
- Intimidate
- Excellent
- To be loudly arrogant and overbearing; be noisy and quarrelsome.
- Synonyms To bluster, swagger, vapor.
- Pickled or canned beef.
- Fine; capital; good: as, a bully horse, picture, etc.
- Brisk; dashing; jovial; high-spirited.
- Blustering; hectoring; ruffianly.
- To grow in bulk; bulge; dilate or expand; increase in size or extent by addition of any kind; grow in volume, intensity, or force: literally or figuratively, and used in a great variety of applications.
- To belly, as sails; bulge out, as a cask in the middle; protuberate.
- To rise in altitude; rise above a given level.
- To be puffed up with some feeling; show outwardly elation or excitement; hence, to strut; look big: as, to swell with pride, anger, or rage.
- To rise and gather; well up.
- To increase the bulk, size, amount, or number of; cause to expand, dilate, or increase.
- To inflate; puff up; raise to arrogance.
- To increase gradually the intensity, force, or volume of: as, to swell a tone. See swell, n., 4.
- Come up, as of a liquid
- Excellent
- First-rate of its kind; hence, elegant; stylish.
BULLY vs SWELL: RELATED WORDS
- Dandy, Cracking, Good, Cool, Smashing, Roughneck, Swagger, Rowdy, Hooligan, Tough, Hector, Yobbo, Yob, Ruffian, Browbeat
- Neat, Fop, Corking, Dandy, Dude, Groovy, Bully, Well, Smashing, Great, Good, Cracking, Peachy, Cool, Distend
BULLY vs SWELL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Swell, Great, Dandy, Cracking, Good, Cool, Smashing, Swagger, Rowdy, Hooligan, Tough, Yobbo, Yob, Ruffian, Browbeat
- Neat, Fop, Corking, Dandy, Dude, Groovy, Bully, Well, Smashing, Great, Good, Cracking, Peachy, Cool, Distend
BULLY vs SWELL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- 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.
- The second is that when you quarter the wake or swell, the boat will try to steer away from the wake or swell.
- When landing down a secondary swell, attempt to touch down on the back side, not on the face of the swell.
- On a buoy report, Swell Direction is the compass direction from which the swell wave are coming from.
- Athenians and swell their pride, no less than the public and private material goods the Empire brings them swell their appetites.
- Distant groundswells and the ideal swell direction is from the northwest year round with the NE swell.
- NW mixing with secondary swell from the SW get reinforcement from W wind swell.
- Including top quality forecast resources, expect most of it to occur on higher risk days swell and WSW swell.
- NNW winds rough up a small blend of NW swell mix and minor S swell.
- Expand, dilate, bloat, enlarge, swell, stretch, swell out.
- Summary of near Beach swell conditions as the swell arrives LOLA report on swell, wind and pressure charts guide!
BULLY vs SWELL: QUESTIONS
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