scalie
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editscalie (plural scalies)
- (Canada, US, dated, derogatory, slang) A strikebreaker.
- 1908 November, “On the Firing Line”, in Machinists' Monthly Journal, volume 20, number 11, page 998:
- While we were there a couple of scalies came out and started up the street, but seeing the strikers there they turned around and went back into the saloon.
- 1911 March, “From Brittania Lodge, No. 361”, in Railway Carmen's Journal, volume 16, number 3, page 129:
- In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.
- 1935, International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union Journal, volume 30, page 830:
- In Dallas, women scalies cursed women pickets; four pickets went to jail for disorderly conduct while the scalies went on to work.
- (Australia, slang) A weighbridge worker.
- 1984 August 7, Bruce Stannard, “The demons that haunt the long-run truckies”, in The Bulletin, page 68:
- […] even allowing for the detours through the back roads to avoid the "scalies" who man the highway truck-weight checking stations.
- 2009 March 3, John Andersen, “Floodwater graveyard”, in Townsville Bulletin:
- Scalies are stationed 24/7 on the northern outskirts of the Towers to ensure no one does tries to do a rat-run. The weight limit might soon impact on a large number of jobs.
- (US, informal) A scaled quail (Callipepla squamata).
- 2003, Durwood Hollis, Hunting Upland Game & Waterfowl, Krause Publications, →ISBN, pages 40–41:
- About the same size as the valley quail and the Gambel's quail, the scaled quail is often referred to as the "drab shirttail relative." Gray-blue in color (often known locally as "blue quail"), with a slight black tipping of the chest and breast plumage that creates scalelike markings, (hence the nickname "scalies"), […]
- 2007, Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts, HarperCollins, published 2007, →ISBN, page 212:
- Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.
- (furry fandom) A reptile or reptile-like animal character with human characteristics.
- (furry fandom) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being such a character. (compare furry)
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