bally-wartch
English
Noun
bally-wartch (plural bally-wartches)
- (Lancashire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
- 1865, Brierley, Benjamin, Irkdale, or, the Odd House in the Hollow, volume 1, page 26:
- It edges my teeth wurr nor a railroad whitle when it's yeawlin like a kennol o' clemmed heawnd-shelps, or a donkey wi'th' bally-wartch.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.
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References
- Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238