ballyrag

Other forms of ballyrag

past tense or participle

ballyragged

present participle

ballyragging

third person

ballyrags·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ballyrag

What does ballyrag mean?

ballyrag means "be bossy towards".

How many syllables are in ballyrag?

ballyrag has 3 syllables and divides as bal-ly-rag under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ballyrag?

Close synonyms include strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, boss around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballyrag a common word?

ballyrag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.