1. (n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

2. (v. t.) To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.

3. (v. i.) To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

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