bally


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bally

(ˈbælɪ)
adj, adv
slang Brit a euphemism for bloody6

bally

(ˈbælɪ)
n
(Anatomy) dialect Northern English a thumb
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.bally - informal intensifiersbally - informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie"
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Translations

bally

[ˈbælɪ] ADJ (Brit) → puñetero
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bally

adj (dated Brit inf) → verflixt (inf)
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References in classic literature ?
In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.
It'll be more bally corpse than bride, though, this journey.
"I wish we could understand their bally language," exclaimed Smith-Oldwick.
There's a hole in her you could drive a bally cow through, sir."
'Miss 'Enderson,' he has said, 'I have for you the bally good news.
'Miss 'Enderson,' he has said, 'I have once more the bally good news.
'Per'aps,' Captain Bassett has said--and still more in a dream I 'ear him--'per'aps on the 'at-box there is some bally name or other, do you not know--what?'
"If it's any of my business, how the devil did you ever get into that bally jungle?"
If you ask me, I call the whole thing bally foolishness."
WORCESTER - The news that Bally Total Fitness in Lincoln Square Plaza is closing on March 25, after more than 20 years there, was greeted by club members yesterday with shock and anger.
This year, while our friend Saul Beck celebrates his 30th anniversary as a key communicator to the frozen food industry, Bally is lighting a few candles of its own.
For the past two years horses Billy and Bally have won the pairs equitation class at the annual RSPCA Horse Show in Greenhead Park, Huddersfield.