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peelywally adjective

Unwell, washed out, under the weather, pale & uninteresting

Example

I was a bit peelywally this morning

Origin

Scottish slang or dialect

Collector

Granny Dixon – 1950s
Marion Dixon (Howes) – mother of Mum, spouse of Pop

Notes

A Scot would say it to rhyme with trolley
Granny said it to rhyme with alley.

Francis’s grandmother and Aunt Dorothy also used the expression in the same sense

See also

peelywally baggie

Submitted: 09/03/2021 by Mark ● Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:26 by Mark

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