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paulie, pallie, a. (n.) Sc.|ˈpɔlɪ, ˈpɑlɪ|
Also pawlie, palie, paley.
[Origin not ascertained.]
a. adj. Undersized, weakly, impotent: applied esp. to the smallest or poorest lambs of a flock, also to a poor weakly child.
b. n. An undersized lamb, one of the smallest lambs of a flock.
1818Hogg Brownie of B. I. ix. 158 There was Geordie..the flesher,..that took away the crocks and the paulies, and my brockit-lamb. 1822W. J. Napier Pract. Store-farming 251 The gimmer-lambs throughout, bear a proportion to the ‘second’ lambs and palies as two to one. a1835Hogg Tales (1866) 360 As for your paulie toop lamb, what care I for it? 1886C. Scott Sheep Farming 19 Deformed and crippled specimens in Scotland are termed ‘pallie lambs’. |