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To hector someone is to speak to them in an angry, threatening way, and to keep doing it — not one short shout, but pushing and as if you mean to scare them into saying yes. It often happens in front of other people: a boss hectors staff; a speaker hectors a crowd. The feeling is loud, high, and unfair, closer to bullying with words than to a calm telling-off. The word itself sounds a little old and . You will meet it in newspapers and novels more than in the school corridor; younger people more often say bully, go on at, or have a go at. Though actually the story behind it is upside-down. Hector in the old Greek poems is Troy’s greatest warrior, a brave man. Much later, English speakers used Hector as a nickname for a loud street bully, and then they made a verb from that. So the name of a hero became a word for talking at someone in a hard, way.
組成From the name Hector, the greatest warrior of Troy in Homer’s Iliad. Latin Hectōr / Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr) meant “holding fast,” from ἔχειν / ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, to hold”), from the old root *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”). English first used Hector for a warrior with those qualities, later for a swaggering bully; the verb is derived from that noun.
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Hectorname/ˈhɛktə/
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A male given name from Ancient Greek.
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A thundercloud cluster that forms nearly every afternoon from approximately September to March near the Tiwi Islands of Australia, reaching a height and width of 20 kilometers.
hectornoun/ˈhɛktə/
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Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
- Luc[ia]. VVhat would you do you dowty Hectors? / Kick. Hectors! upon my honour, if we can find them out, we'll beat your Gallants for this. / […] Luc. Advant, you Hectors, we are not fit for you: […]
hectorverb/ˈhɛktə/
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To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
- Theſe Nimrods (ſay they) grew great by the Strength of their Limbs and their Vices, engraved their Murthers upon their Shields, and Hectored all the Little and Peaceable People into Peaſantry.
- It was a common thing for an honeſt Man, when he came Home at Night, to find another Fellow domineering in his Family, hectoring his Servants, calling for Supper, and pretending to go to Bed with his Wife.
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To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
- […] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […]
- Leave me alone! Will you leave me alone! Hectored by women all my life—hectored by women—first one, then another. I won't stand it—I won't stand it—
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