Definition for BULL'Y

BULL'Y, n. [Sw. böla, to bellow; buller, a tumult; Dan. bullen, swelled, puffed up; or more directly from Sax. bulgian, to bellow.]

A noisy, blustering, overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels. – Addison.

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