bally-warche

English

Noun

bally-warche (plural bally-warches)

1. (Lancashire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
   • 1867, Edwin Waugh, Th' Barrel Organ:

     Th' singers couldn't get forrud for laughin'. One on 'em whisper't to Thwittler, an' axed him if his fiddle had getten th' bally-warche.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238