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hector

to bully and browbeat

Today this word meansTo intimidate and push someone around.

It is the name of Hector, the hero of Troy.

The verb hardened in seventeenth-century London, where a gang of street toughs called themselves the Hectors.

Worth noting

The Hector of myth is the last person the meaning fits. Only the swagger of the name was borrowed.

Where it comes from