bally-wartch

English

Noun

bally-wartch (plural bally-wartches)

1. (Lancashire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
   • 1865, Benjamin Brierley, Irkdale, or, the Odd House in the Hollow‎^[1], volume 1, page 26:

     It edges my teeth wurr nor a railroad whitle when it's yeawlin like a kennol o' clemmed heawnd-shelps, or a donkey wi'th' bally-wartch.

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

References

• Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[2], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238