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Examples
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First to appear was a bespectacled, peely-wally, child - molester-looking type.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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Ah remember gettin 'pally wi' a peely-wally 'tally,
Leo McGuire's Song 1998
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This bloke, though, was a peely-wally late-forties (I'm being generous) Glaswegian, and it just looked utterly, utterly wrong.
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"Within a decade of the new parliament, step two was the election of an SNP administration to provide bold and effective leadership - recognising that Scotland needs a real government, not a peely-wally 'executive'.
Epolitix News 2010
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"Within a decade of the new parliament, step two was the election of an SNP administration to provide bold and effective leadership - recognising that Scotland needs a real government, not a peely-wally 'executive'.
Epolitix News 2010
chained_bear commented on the word peely-wally
"'Morag wasna feeling all that peart, and the bairn was peely-wally too, so they lay down in the grass to sleep a bit whilst the wheel was mending. The drover had a mate and didna need my help, so I set off to stretch my legs.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 628
December 18, 2009
bilby commented on the word peely-wally
Scots: wan, sickly, pale.
February 15, 2018