Pillaloo
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pillaloo is a noun meaning (obsolete) A chorus of sorrow or distress.
Meaning
(obsolete) A chorus of sorrow or distress.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A cry of sorrow or distress
Example Sentences
Oh, pillaloo! why should ye go, my boy, and lave all the good atin and drinkin?
“Pitch a lady’s luggage into the road, would you?” struck in Jim the Guard, making himself heard above the pillaloo.
However in the same breath he talks of writing a poem on the herons at Algeciras “in a few years time”... What a pillaloo!
“Och, but its kilt and smashed intirely they are,” returned Larry, as he stumbled over the shattered remains of a corpse; “och hone – och hone – pillaloo, pillaloo!”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pule, moan, yoop, puling, wail, sough.
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