HECTOR


Meaning of HECTOR in English

v. & n.

v.tr. bully, intimidate.

n. a bully. hectoringly adv.

[ Hector, L f. Gk Hektor, Trojan hero and son of Priam in Homer's Iliad, f. its earlier use to mean 'swaggering fellow' ]

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