bully
意味
- 弱い者いじめ,がき大将
- 〈弱い者〉をいじめる,おどかす
- 《話》(…にとって)すてきな,すばらしい《+for+名》
- うまい,でかした
例文
That big boy is bullying the little children.
あの大きな男の子は小さな子供達をいじめている。
I really dislike people that bully newcomers.
私、新人いじめする人が大っ嫌いなのよ。
I happened to witness the bullying in the corridor.
偶然、廊下でいじめを目撃した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( + -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English Bōla, Bōlla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *bō- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian bālinš (“brother”). More at boy. The term acquired a negative connotation during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’.