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Is bully a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bully is a Scrabble US word. The word bully is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is bully a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bully is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Is bully a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bully is a Words With Friends word. The word bully is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

BULLY,

4-letter words (1 found)

BULL,

3-letter words (1 found)

BUY,

2-letter words (2 found)

BY,YU,

You can make 5 words from bully according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of bully

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Definitions and meaning of bully

bully

Etymology

From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( +‎ -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English Bōla, Bōlla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *bō- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian bālinš (“brother”). More at boy.

The term acquired negative senses during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’. Possibly influenced by bull (“male cattle”) or via the ‘prostitute's minder’ sense. The positive senses are dated, but survive in phrases such as bully pulpit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʊli/
  • Rhymes: -ʊli

Noun

bully (countable and uncountable, plural bullies)

  1. A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. [from late 17th c.]
  2. A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
  3. A hired thug.
    Synonyms: henchman, thug
  4. A sex worker’s minder.
    Synonyms: pimp; see also Thesaurus:pimp
  5. (uncountable) Bully beef.
  6. (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
  7. The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
  8. Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
  9. (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
  10. (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
  11. (obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sweetheart
  12. (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
    Synonym: bully-off
  13. (mining) A miner's hammer.

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Verb

bully (third-person singular simple present bullies, present participle bullying, simple past and past participle bullied)

  1. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intimidate
  2. (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
    Synonyms: push around, ride roughshod over

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Adjective

bully (comparative bullier, superlative bulliest)

  1. (US, slang) Very good.
    Synonyms: excellent; see also Thesaurus:excellent
  2. (slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
    Synonym: dashing

Derived terms

  • bully boy
  • bully pulpit

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Interjection

bully

  1. (often followed by for) Well done!
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:well done

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References

Further reading

  • bully on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bully, itself a derivation of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.li/
  • Hyphenation: bul‧ly

Noun

bully m (plural bully's)

  1. (field hockey) bully (way of resuming the game with a standoff between two opposing players who repeatedly hit each other's sticks, then try to gain possession of the ball)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bully.

Noun

bully m (plural bullys or bullies or bully)

  1. bully

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.


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