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pallall Sc. and north. dial.|pəˈlɑːl, -æ-|
Also pallalls, palall, pallaly, pallaldies palaulays, pally-ully.
[Derivation unknown.]
A Scotch and Northern English name for the game of hopscotch; sometimes, the stone used in the game.
1808–18Jamieson, Pallall, Pallalls, a game of children, in which they hop on one foot through different triangular spaces chalked out, driving a bit of slate or broken crokery before them. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch i. 14 Some of her companions took her out to the back of the house to have a game at the pallall. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North i. 3 Pall-lall..or any other of the games of the school play⁓ground. 1891Barrie Little Minister xxvii. 292 There were..girls playing at palaulays. 1896Meldrum Grey Mantle 251 Mony's the time I've played the pallaldies bare-fit wi' 'm on the plainstanes. 1898R. Blakeborough Wit, etc. N. Riding Yorksh. (E.D.D.), Divisions are chalked on the pavement, and the ‘pally-ullies’ are impelled within the lines by a hop on one leg and a side-shuffle with the same foot. |