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mau-mauingverbpresent participle of mau-mau to make timid or fearful by or as if by threatsthe self-appointed guardians of political correctness have been trying to mau-mau the university president into rescinding everyone's freedom of speech blackjacking, bogarting, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bullyragging(also ballyragging), cowing, hectoring, intimidating, strong-arming blustering, trash-talkingaffrighting, alarming(also alaruming), frightening, horrifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifyingmenacing, terrorizing, threateningbadgering, harassing, houndingbludgeoning, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, forcing, making, obliging, pressing, pressuring, pushing arounddemoralizing, psyching (out), unmanning, unnervingdiscomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, upsetting picking on cheering, comforting, consoling, reassuring, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, steelingconvincing, persuading |