"ballyrag" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ballyrags",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballyragging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballyragged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballyragged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "ballyrag (third-person singular simple present ballyrags, present participle ballyragging, simple past and past participle ballyragged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anger",
          "orig": "en:Anger",
          "parents": [
            "Emotions",
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "en:Talking",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 29, in The House by the Church Yard",
          "text": ". . . the Duchess of Belmont, that ballyrags every one round her, like a tipsy old soldier.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in Three Men and a Maid",
          "text": "\"I remember you as a boy, Samuel,\" said Mrs. Hignett, \"lamentably lacking in consideration for others and concentrated only on your selfish pleasures. . . .\"\n\"Don't ballyrag the poor man,\" said Jane Hubbard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally."
      ],
      "id": "en-ballyrag-en-verb-YMrmdpAZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "badger",
          "badger"
        ],
        [
          "taunt",
          "taunt"
        ],
        [
          "abuse",
          "abuse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bullyrag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ballyrag"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ballyrags",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballyragging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballyragged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballyragged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "ballyrag (third-person singular simple present ballyrags, present participle ballyragging, simple past and past participle ballyragged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Anger",
        "en:Talking"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 29, in The House by the Church Yard",
          "text": ". . . the Duchess of Belmont, that ballyrags every one round her, like a tipsy old soldier.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in Three Men and a Maid",
          "text": "\"I remember you as a boy, Samuel,\" said Mrs. Hignett, \"lamentably lacking in consideration for others and concentrated only on your selfish pleasures. . . .\"\n\"Don't ballyrag the poor man,\" said Jane Hubbard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "badger",
          "badger"
        ],
        [
          "taunt",
          "taunt"
        ],
        [
          "abuse",
          "abuse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bullyrag"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ballyrag"
}