To scold with threats; to defy.
1807. You vainly thought to ballarag us with your fine squadron off Cape Lagos.—Warton, ‘Misc.,’ p. 128. (N.E.D.)
1845. You have been in the habit since you were away down South, of threatening and bullyragging those that are in arrears to a few dollars for your excellent paper.—‘The Cincinnati Miscellany,’ i. 163.
a. 1870. I never heard of his fightin’ anybody but his own kind, and when he was bullyragged.—F. Bret Harte, ‘The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin.’
