ballarag

English

Etymology

Corrupted from bullirag.

Verb

ballarag (third-person singular simple present ballarags, present participle ballaragging, simple past and past participle ballaragged)

1. (archaic, transitive) To bully; to threaten.
   • 1867, Admiral W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-Book:

     T. Warton of the French king— “You surely thought to ballarag us with your fine squadron off Cape Lagos.”

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ballarag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)