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English
Etymology
From Scots peely-wally.
Pronunciation
Adjective
peely-wally (not comparable)
- (chiefly Scotland) Pale, pasty; off-color or ill-looking.
1984, William Boyd, An Ice Cream War:‘Are there no English troops out here?’ ‘A few,’ Gilzean said. ‘But they're all sick. Peely-wally lot the English, ye ken.’
2011 July 3, Kevin McKenna, The Guardian: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.
Translations
Scots
Etymology
Reduplication of peelie, with variation of initial syllable.
Adjective
peely-wally (comparative mair peely-wally, superlative maist peely-wally)
- peely-wally, sickly, pasty
2007, Irvine Welsh, If You Liked School, You'll Love Work:Erchie hus a laugh at that yin, n the Neebour gies a peely-wally smile while the Duke signals up a round ay black gold.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)