What does peely-wally mean?
Peely-wally means (chiefly Scotland) Pale, pasty; off-color or ill-looking..
Peely-wally
/ˈpiliˌwali/ · adjective
Meaning
(chiefly Scotland) Pale, pasty; off-color or ill-looking..
Example Sentences
‘Are there no English troops out here?’ ‘A few,’ Gilzean said. ‘But they're all sick. Peely-wally lot the English, ye ken.’
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.
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- peelie wallie
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‘Are there no English troops out here?’ ‘A few,’ Gilzean said. ‘But they're all sick. Peely-wally lot the English, ye ken.’
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