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What (who) is bully-boy - definition
SPECIES OF PLANT
Buckthorn Bully; Buckthorn bully
bully-boy
also bully boy
(bully-boys)
1.
If you describe a man as a bully-boy, you disapprove of him because he is rough and aggressive.
...bully-boys and murderers.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
2.
If you say that someone uses bully-boy tactics, you disapprove of them because they use rough and aggressive methods. (JOURNALISM)
Some people accuse the tax inspectors of bully-boy tactics.
ADJ: ADJ n [disapproval]
Bully Boy
PLAY BY SANDI TOKSVIG
Bully boy
Bully Boy is a play by British-Danish playwright and comedian Sandi Toksvig. The show opened at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, on 13 May 2011,Sandi Toksvig on Bully Boy with Anthony Andrews as Major Oscar Hadley and Joshua Miles as Private Eddie Clark.
Wikipedia
Sideroxylon lycioides
Sideroxylon lycioides, the buckthorn bully, is a small tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is widely distributed in the southeastern United States from Texas to southeast Virginia.
The fruit pulp is thin but edible and consumed by birds. Livestock browse the plant's foliage.
Examples of use of bully-boy
1. He is a tremendous bully–boy when he wants to be.
2. He‘s a bully–boy, and the only thing that makes him different from the others is that they hide it.
3. As long as Israel continues its bully boy tactics there is not a hope in hell of any peace in the area.
4. Blair and his bully–boy Alastair Campbell – determined to join the American offensive despite the opposition of most British people – effectively cooked up the case for war.
5. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said: "No support for Brown’s error of judgment has ever existed – this is desperate bully–boy tactics.