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say it: BUUL-ee-ing
bullying is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something". It is pronounced /ˈbʊliɪŋ/ — BUUL-ee-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bullying come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.