‘Are there no English troops out here?’ ‘A few,’ Gilzean said. ‘But they're all sick. Peely-wally lot the English, ye ken.’
Source: wiktionary
Peely-wally
//ˈpiliˌwali//
Synonyms for "peely-wally"
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Translations
4 translations across 1 languages.
German
4 entries- blass adj (pale, off-color)
- bleich adj (pale, off-color)
- fahl adj (pale, off-color)
- kränklich adj (pale, off-color)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
But I felt that Tommy's championing of the lit de soleil, as it's known in Maryhill, was courageous and condign. It allowed otherwise peely wally Glaswegians to hold their tanned faces aloft in polite company and let their neighbours think they'd been to Santa Ponsa or Majorca.
Source: wiktionary
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