Definition of Bally

1. Adjective. Informal intensifiers. "You flaming idiot"

Exact synonyms: Blinking, Bloody, Blooming, Crashing, Flaming, Fucking
Similar to: Unmitigated

Definition of Bally

1. Adjective. (British dated euphemistic) bloody; used as a mild intensifier. ¹

2. Adverb. (UK dated euphemistic) Very. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bally

1. a noisy uproar [n -LIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bally

ballup
ballups
ballute
ballutes
bally (current term)
bally(a)
ballyard
ballyards
ballyhoo
ballyhoo artist
ballyhooed
ballyhooing
ballyhoos
ballyrag
ballyragged
ballyragging
ballyrags
balm
balm of Gilead

Literary usage of Bally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Hubert Thomas Knox (1908)
"... half- bally of the Creevagh,4 and the half-bally of Car n Calain, and the bally of ... and these three are one bally, and the bally of ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"M. bally does not strongly recommend this remedy in cases of amaurosis, ... With regard to the dose of the strychnine, M. bally recommends us to begin by a ..."

3. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Hubert Thomas Knox (1908)
"... and the two ballies of the Turlach, and the half- bally of the Creevagh,4 and the half-bally of Carn Calain, and the bally of ..."

4. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference: Containing Over One Hundred by Lawrence Barnett Phillips (1889)
"bally, Edward Hodge«, Eng. sculptor ; 1788—1867 M. bally, J., English engraver ; 1790* B. bally, Fr., English scholar and astron., founder of the Royal ..."

5. Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
"MONSIEUR bally, who had been cast maker to Spurzheim, ... Jc-b did not see his famous apparition more indelibly than I still see Monsieur bally, ..."

6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"What comes o'er the devil's back goes under his bally" is a proverbial expression ... We speak of the little pigs themselves as a "bally of pit's ;" in ..."

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