[
US
/ˈbæɫi, ˈbeɪɫi/
]
[ UK /bˈɔːli/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔːli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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informal intensifiers
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
you flaming idiot
a crashing bore
a bloody fool
How To Use bally In A Sentence
- Ballymaloe take a more seasonal approach to things by using redcurrant rather than lemon juice, made by simmering a couple of punnets of the astringent little fruits with water, and then pushing them through a sieve. How to make perfect strawberry jam
- Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
- There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
- Howell has also admitted indecent assault charges against three of his patients in April and July 2008 at his clinic in Ballymoney. Northern Ireland dentist admits double murder
- _Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
- Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
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- No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
- However, at the other end of the scale the worst site was at Ballybeg which had been a problem for a long time.
- Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.