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Word Meanings - HECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

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  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • INSOLENTLY
    In an insolent manner.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • TURBULENTLY
    In a turbulent manner.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • FELLOWLY
    Fellowlike. Shak.
  • BLUSTERINGLY
    In a blustering manner.
  • BLUSTEROUS
    Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
  • BULLY; BULLY BEEF
    Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
  • BULLY TREE
    The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
  • TURBULENT
    1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory;
  • BULLY
    1. Jovial and blustering; dashing. "Bless thee, bully doctor." Shak. 2. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
  • BULLYRAG
    See BULLIRAG
  • FELLOW
    companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
  • INSOLENT
    1. Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.
  • BLUSTER
    1. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore. Milton. 2. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
  • BLUSTERING
    1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
  • FELLOW-CREATURE
    One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
  • UNFELLOWED
    Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • ODD FELLOW
    A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
  • PEWFELLOW
    1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
  • GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
    Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • COACHFELLOW
    One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.

 

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