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单词 peely-wally
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Definition of peely-wally in English:

peely-wally

(also peely-wallie)
adjective ˌpiːlɪˈwaliˈpiːlɪwɒli
Scottish
  • Pale and sickly in appearance.

    his face assumes a peely-wally hue
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A cloudless sky allowed a hearty sun to toast our peely-wally skin when we stopped in Glencoe for our picnic.
    • Among a sea of peely-wally politicians at their HQ on Edinburgh's George IV Bridge Tommy stands out like a peacock among penguins.
    • So, as he exposes his Caledonian features to California's burning rays, he'll be enabling some more movie types to put a peely-wally face to a name.
    • It's quite disheartening for a peely-wally Scot, but it sure is easy on the eye.
    • That's prim as in a sea of peely-wally, defiantly untoned flesh.
    Synonyms
    white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, looking as if one had seen a ghost

Origin

Mid 19th century: probably imitative of a whining sound.

 
 
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