bally

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  1. A town: an element in many place-names in Ireland: as, Ballywalter, upper town; Ballycastle, castle-town; Ballymoney, town on the moss, etc. The old tribal division of the ballys into “quarters” and “tates” has left distinct and numerous traces in the names of the present townlands in Ireland. Seebohm, Eng. Vill. Communities, p. 223.

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  • And he had been burked, murdered, blotted out, in order to make room for a bally Scotchman. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • As for the bally parsons, they don't understand A broad smile came over the constable's face Were you asking where you could get blind drunk comfortably, sir? —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • The wide dim street, paved with wood shavings, seemed faintly luminous between the rows of stands, and bally-platforms. —  The Dreaming Jewels
  • Sometimes Havana used to remark to Bunny, at night, that Zena was going to wear her fingers plumb off if she played all day on the bally-platform and all night to amuse Horty; for the guitar would cry and ring for hours after they bedded down. —  The Dreaming Jewels
  • What you think you see is just bally, a front with the gimmicks all hidden if there are any gimmicks A continuous mess of almost nothing, that's what's really there. —  The Fabulous Clipjoint
 

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  1. Repr. Irish Gaelic baile, Manx balley, a town, village.
 

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