ballyragging

He has already suffered enough and any one with such a ballyragging, unreasonable, unladylike, and headstrong wife deserves our sympathy.

Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien

You get a chap like Norris, who, when he loses his hair, has got just about as much tact as a rhinoceros, going and ballyragging the man, and no wonder he won't say anything.

A Prefect's Uncle 1928

I wouldn't have had an archbishop ballyragging me and ordering me about.

Plays of Near & Far Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid -- or young woman rather -- standing at the door crying her eyes out.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid -- or young woman rather -- standing at the door crying her eyes out.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

"Naggeneen," said the King, "it's trouble enough you've made for all of us, and it's ballyragging enough you and all the rest of us have got for it, and we don't know, as His Majesty said, what more is to come.

Fairies and Folk of Ireland William Henry Frost 1882

"What do you mean by assaulting and ballyragging me in this way?

Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875