[Lexicog] Pejorative suffixes (more-ish)

[Peter Kirk]

On 30/03/2005 14:09, Nick Miller wrote:

>I mentioned 'bully' in the sense of hockey as the Czechs used to say (and
>still do informally) 'buly' for this. Nowadays they say 'vhazovani' - lit.
>'throwing in'. The same thing happens in a scrum basically.
>
>
>
I also thought of the phrase "Bully for you". And searching for this I
came across
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/20/messages/1090.html, which
sheds some extra light on the subject.

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