/ʃuɡəˈrɛlɪ/, -olly /ʃuɡəˈrɒlɪ/, etc.sugarallien.
/ʃʊɡəˈrali/, U.S. /ˌʃʊɡəˈræli/, Scottish English /ʃuɡəˈralɪ//ʃuɡəˈrɛlɪ/, -olly /ʃuɡəˈrɒlɪ/, etc. Scottish colloquial.
Liquorice.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > liquorice
liquoricec1275
liquorice-stick1580
rigolice1580
glycyrize1599
Spanish liquorice1753
Pomfret?1780
Spanish juice1803
sugarallie1812
allsorts1851
sugarallie button1887
liquorice all-sorts1928
nigger baby1934
bootlace1935
liquorice bootlace1952
1812 P. Forbes Poems 21 Sulphur, salt fish, sugar allie.
1842 App. 1st Rep. Commisioners: Mines (Children's Employm. Comm.) i. 465 in Parl. Papers XVI. 1 Mother gives me 3d., which I spend in sugar-alleys and sweeties.
1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie iii. 53 The stock of candy and liquorice (known in that countryside by the name of ‘sugar-ally’).
1915 A. S. Neill Dominie's Log xviii. 206 To-night I have a great craving for a stick of twisted sugarelly—the polite call it liquorice.
1921 A. S. Neill Carroty Broon xvii. 229 Long tubes of sugarella.
1947 L. Derwent Clashmaclavers 87 Whiles a lucky-bag I'd try, Or sticky sugar-alla buy.
Compounds
sugarallie button n. a round sweet made of liquorice.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > liquorice
liquoricec1275
liquorice-stick1580
rigolice1580
glycyrize1599
Spanish liquorice1753
Pomfret?1780
Spanish juice1803
sugarallie1812
allsorts1851
sugarallie button1887
liquorice all-sorts1928
nigger baby1934
bootlace1935
liquorice bootlace1952
1887 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends xx. 148 Havin' discovered that Flossie had a weakness for sugarellie buttons, Simpson has made it a habit to hae ane or twa o' thae sweetmeats in his pouch on courtin' nichts.
sugarallie hat n. a tall cylindrical hat, esp. as formerly worn by policemen.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tall > cylindrical
nail-keg1867
sugarallie hat1887
1887 J. McBain Arbroath 104 Their bonnets were replaced by ‘sugarellie hats’.
1904 ‘H. Foulis’ Erchie 65 The sugaraully hats the polis used to hae.
1953 J. J. Lavin Compass of Youth i. vi. 54 Yelling derisively: ‘Sugarawlly Hat,’ to the might and majesty of the law.
sugarallie water n. a drink made by vigorously shaking a container in which water and a stick of liquorice have been placed.
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the world > food and drink > drink > water > [noun] > water and liquorice
sugarallie water1889
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xxii. 207 Bairns..shook their bottles of sugarelly water into a froth.
1923 W. D. Lyell Justice-Clerk i. iv. 26 What say ye to a sma' bottle o' sugaralie water?
1947 J. F. Hendry Fernie Brae 10 Shall we make some sugarolly water?
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