bullyrag

present singular third person bullyrags · participle present bullyragging · participle past bullyragged · past bullyragged · alternative ballyrag

1. transitiveTo harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.

   But once again both sides spent as much time bullyragging one another as they did questioning witnesses.

   1996 July 22, Tim Weiner, “Warnings of a Disaster in Waco Were Ignored, Witness Testifies”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2014

   2 more examples

   Ashe was intoxicated with his own oratory. The sensation of bully-ragging a genuine millionaire was new and exhilarating.

   1915, P. G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, Everyman, published 2005, page 131

   In a feat of no small symbolic value, the school bullyragged the university into shutting down a fossil fuel power plant that had formerly occupied.

   2009 March 9, “Pursuing the elusive goal of a carbon-neutral building”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Aug 2014