bally-wartch

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English

Noun

bally-wartch (plural bally-wartches)

  1. (Lancashire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
    • 1865, Benjamin Brierley, Irkdale, or, the Odd House in the Hollow, volume 1, page 26:
      It edges my teeth wurr nor a railroad whitle when it's yeawlin like a kennol o' clemmed heawnd-shelps, or a donkey wi'th' bally-wartch.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.

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