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▪ I. pal, n.1 colloq. (orig. slang or low colloq.)|pæl|
Also 7–9 pall, 9 pell.
[a. Eng. Gipsy pal brother, mate (Smart & Crofton) = Turkish Gipsy pral, plal, Transylv. Gipsy pçral brother.]
A comrade, mate, partner, associate, ‘chum’; an accomplice in crime or dishonesty.
1681–2Hereford Dioc. Reg. Depos. 29 Jan. 51 Wheare have you been all this day, pall?.. Why, pall, what would you have mee to doe? 178..Parker Life's Painter 136 Pal, a comrade, when highwaymen rob in pairs, they say such a one was his or my pal. 1807Byron Let. 30 June in Works (1898) I. 130 ‘Better late than never, Pal,’ is a saying..applicable on the present occasion. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Pall, a partner; companion; associate; or accomplice. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXII. 693 Suppose me,..my pells all around me, fighting that day's battle o'er again. 1841S. Bamford Passages in Life of Radical (ed. 2) I. xxiv. 151 The thieves and their ‘pals’, as he termed the repulsive females. 1886Lantern (New Orleans) 27 Oct. 2/3 Reynold Bowers and his pal, Jack Lacoste. 1890Kipling in Pioneer Mail 28 May 698/2, I was great pals with a man called Hicksey. 1894Sir J. D. Astley 50 Years Life I. 331 He was a great pal of mine. 1924F. M. Ford Some do Not i. ii. 50 Eunice Vanderdecken is a bitterly misjudged woman. She's a real good pal. 1936M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest v. 79, I have talked to her..as I couldn't to anyone else... Well, she's been a complete pal—if you know what I mean. 1963Listener 14 Feb. 279/1 The local battalion, the Bradford Pals, was butchered at the Somme. 1972J. Porter Meddler & her Murder x. 128 Be a pal and shove the marge across.
Hence ˈpallish, ˈpally (also in the extended form pally-wally) adjs., on terms of fellowship; ‘chummy’; ˈpalliness; ˈpalship, the relation of being pals, comradeship. (All slangy.)
1892M. Williams Round London (1893) 127, I was at Eton with [him]..and, as boys say, we were very ‘pallish’. 1895Westm. Gaz. 27 June 3/2 A pleasant scene between ‘Miss Brown’ and a school-girl from Demerara, who tries to become ‘pally’ with her. 1896Blackw. Mag. Mar. 300 There is no ‘palship’ between a thief and his ‘fence’. 1915H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) i. 9 The Honourable George..had..been almost quite too pally with him. 1916[see never adv. 9]. 1922J. Cannan Misty Valley 282 If you cared for me it was not pally to let me go on doing things I didn't know were wrong. 1923[see hell-brew s.v. hell n. 11 a]. 1929H. A. Vachell Virgin i. 12 She had never been ‘pally’ with girls. 1936W. R. Titterton G. K. Chesterton i. v. 60 [He] was on pally terms even with small shop-keepers, farmers and country squires. 1936P. M. Clark Autobiogr. Old Drifter xiv. 200 The wonderful pal-ship of dogs is to me an everlasting delight. 1951R. Hoggart Auden ii. 38 Auden often wobbles..from the pally to the patronising. 1954F. Brown in Astounding Sci. Fiction Sept. 16/2, I like quarrelling. If you're going to go namby-pamby and pally-wally on me, I'll go find someone else. 1966Listener 23 June 897/2 The whole feuding quartet had been invited..to join the presidential plane and put on a show of unanimity and palship. 1972R. D. Abrahams in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 236 The protected and licensed confines of palship groupings. 1974Publishers Weekly 11 Feb. 56/2 His long, intimate palship with Marlon ‘Bud’ Brando. 1974S. Gulliver Vulcan Bulletins 47 Why would Anscudden go along with stealing Javits' shipment? I thought they were supposed to be pally. 1976Scottish Rev. Spring 9 She joined a Whist club and got very pally with another auld maid like herself.
▪ II. † pal, n.2 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. pāla spade, blade, shoulder-blade.]
A blade.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. F iv b, The bone spatulare..is lyke a pal, for it is large and thynne fro the backe parte with an apparence holden by y⊇ myddes.
▪ III. pal, v.
[f. pal n.1]
intr. To become or be a ‘pal’ of another; to keep company, associate (with). Often with in, on, up, and around with, up with.
1879Autobiog. of Thief in Macm. Mag. XL. 500, I palled in with some older hands at the game. 1889L. B. Walford Stiff-necked Gen. (new ed.) 95, I think you and I ‘pal up’ very well. 1899E. Phillpotts Human Boy 84 Bray bossed Corkey and palled with him. 1915R. Lardner in McClure's Mag. Aug. 21/3, I and Lefty and Mike used to pal round together. 1926G. Hunting Vicarion vi. 103 And I shan't have time to compromise you when I can pal around with Charlemagne, or Valentino, or Rameses Second, or Kublai Khan! 1943I. Wolfert Tucker's People viii. 167 All those poor people..were just like the people he palled around with. 1958B. Hamilton Too Much of Water xi. 249, I got tight one night with a chap I'd palled up with. 1975High Times Dec. 24/1 Lenny picked up part of his schtick from the characters that he palled around with in New York. 1976New Society 20 May 409/1 Y'know, who to pal up with. 1977Time 28 Mar. 37/1 It has been reported that he occasionally palled around with gangsters on golf courses or in gambling casinos.
▪ IV. pal
obs. f. pale, pall. |