Larrikin vs Bully - What's the difference?
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(Australia, New Zealand, slang, dated) A brash and impertinent, possibly violent, troublemaker, especially a youth; a hooligan.
* 1896 , , A Visit of Condolence'', published in ''While the Billy Boils: Second Series'', republished 2010, ''Selected Stories ,
* 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter XII,
(Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms.
* 1988 , Gavin Souter, Acts of Parliament: A Narrative History of the Senate and House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Australia ,
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* 2006 , Nick Economou, 26: Jeff Kennett: The larrikin metropolitan'', Paul Strangio, Brian Costar (editors), ''The Victorian Premiers, 1856-2006 ,
(Australian, slang) Exhibiting the characteristics or behaviour of a larrikin; playfully rebellious against and contemptuous of authority and convention.
* 1995 , Alistair Thomson, A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War'', in Joy Damousi, Marilyn Lake (editors), ''Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century ,
* 2002 , Peter Craven, Introduction'', in ''Quarterly Essay , QE 5 2002,
* 2006 , Allon J. Uhlmann, Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia: The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity ,
A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
* Palmerston
A hired thug.
A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
(uncountable) Bully beef.
(obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
A small freshwater fish.
To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
To act aggressively towards.
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(US, slang) Very good; excellent.
(slang) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
* Shakespeare
(often, followed by for) Well done!
Larrikin is a related term of bully.
As nouns the difference between larrikin and bully
is that larrikin is (australia|new zealand|slang|dated) a brash and impertinent, possibly violent, troublemaker, especially a youth; a hooligan while bully is a person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.As adjectives the difference between larrikin and bully
is that larrikin is (australian|slang) exhibiting the characteristics or behaviour of a larrikin; playfully rebellious against and contemptuous of authority and convention while bully is (us|slang) very good; excellent.As a verb bully is
to intimidate (someone) as a bully.As an interjection bully is
(often|followed by for) well done!.larrikin
English
Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- “How dare you talk to me like that, you young larrikin ? Be off! or I'll send for a policeman.”
- Another man told me there never had been a staff on the hill; but if there had been, perhaps larrikins' would have removed it. For larrikinism is one of the evils of New Zealand. Everywhere there one hears of the '''larrikin''', or young hoodlum. '''Larrikins''' are an unorganized, mischievous fraternity. They are always despoiling or marring public or private property or making people the butt of coarse jokes and jeers. If something is stolen, "the '''larrikins''' took it"; if windows or park seats are broken, "the ' larrikins did it."
page 432,
- When Browne's turn came, he went down like a true larrikin , giving cheek to the end.
It's like a part of Australia has died,
- "We're all a bit embarrassed by him
[ ] . He puts that image of Australia to the world - that larrikin attitude - and we're not all like that," says Milo Laing, 27, the manager of an Australian-themed bar on Shaftesbury Avenue.
page 363,
- From the moment he had become opposition leader following the defeat of Lindsay Thompson's government in 1982, Jeff Kennett had been viewed as a political larrikin .
Derived terms
* larrikinismAdjective
(en adjective)page 138,
- Despite his skills as a singer and storyteller, Percy sometimes felt like an outsider among the diggers, excluded by his own ideal and practice of moral manhood from the more larrikin masculinity that he perceived to be predominant.
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- Mungo MacCallum is hardly typecast as the chronicler of the story of what has gone right and wrong about the business of immigration, regular and irregular, to this country but this most larrikin and cold-eyed of one-time Canberra chroniclers brings to this story all his wit and dryness and power of mind.
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- Another area was occupied by a group of guests with a clearly more larrikin style, and who very much belonged to the dominated fraction.The language used was rather different (more ‘crude’ in the second one), clothing style was different too (less trendy, and much cheaper clothes in the second group), as was appearance in general (heavier tattoos in the second group, more people with bad teeth, more of the men with the working-class goatee) and the interaction was generally more boisterous.
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bully
English
(wikipedia bully)Noun
- A playground bully pushed a girl off the swing.
- I noticed you being a bully towards people with disabilities.
- Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in.
- "Bully Bottom" from A Midsummer Night's Dream, III, i, 6.
Synonyms
* (hired thug) henchman, thug * (pimp) pimp, ponceVerb
(en-verb)- You shouldn't bully people for being gay.
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Synonyms
* (intimidate) browbeat, hector, intimidate, ride roughshod over * (act aggressively toward) push around, ride roughshod overAdjective
(er)- a bully horse
- Bless thee, bully doctor.
Synonyms
* (excellent) excellent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, super, superb, top-notchDerived terms
* bully boy * bully pulpitInterjection
(en interjection)- She's finally leaving her abusive husband — bully for her!
