bully

A playground bully pushed a girl off the swing.

Besides, bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in; and men of trick and cunning are not always men of desperate resolves.

Mr. Fisher returned from town... he had learnt that our opponents intended to shift the scene of operations to the Chats... We understood that they had hired two bullies for the purpose of deciding the matter par voie de fait. Mr Fisher hired two of the same description, who were supposed to be more than a match for the opposition party.

The Proclamation Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice were more concerned with obscene literature […] than with hands-on street battles with prostitutes and their bullies […].

What sayest thou, Bully Bottom?

Frae Team Gut to Whitley, we' coals black an' brown

For the Amphitrite loaded, the keel had come down—

But the bullies ower neet had their gobs se oft wet,

That the nyem o' the ship yen an' a' did forget.

I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string / I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?