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ballyrags

ballyrags is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ballyrag.

Meaning of ballyrag

Verb

ballyrag (third-person singular simple present ballyrags, present participle ballyragging, simple past and past participle ballyragged)

  1. (transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.
    • . . . the Duchess of Belmont, that ballyrags every one round her, like a tipsy old soldier.1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 29, in The House by the Church Yard

Questions about ballyrags

What is ballyrags the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ballyrags is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ballyrag.

Words near ballyrags in the dictionary

  1. Ballyphehane
  2. ballyrag
  3. ballyragged
  4. Ballyragget
  5. ballyragging
  6. ballyrags
  7. Ballyroe
  8. Ballyrogan
  9. Ballyroney
  10. Ballysadare
  11. Ballyshannon

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