waly
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare wellaway.
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
waly
- (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.
- 1724, Waly, Waly, Gin Love Be Bonny:
- O waly, waly, but love be bonnie
References edit
- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “WALY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes VI (T–Z, Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC. [wē·li.]
Further reading edit
- “waly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “waly” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. ([′wɑle, ′wǫle, ′wele])