bally

1. UKdatedeuphemisticnot comparableBloody (used as a mild intensifier).

   He's just a bally idiot.

   4 more examples

   “My faith! It’ll be more bally corpse than bride, though, this journey.”

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 145

   “I dislike to frighten the ladies, sir,” he said, “but she can’t float a dozen minutes, in my opinion. There’s a hole in her you could drive a bally cow through, sir.”

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 115

   However, be that as it may and whether you liked the bally thing or didn't, the point was that it had vanished [...] It amazed me that I could have allowed myself to be let in for a binge of this description simply because a woman wished it. Too bally chivalrous for our own good, we Woosters, and always have been. [...] “When you hear me burst into song, you'll know there's peril afoot and you'll have plenty of time to nip out of the window.” “And break my bally neck?” [...] “Nothing can possibly go wrong.” “Just as you say, sir. But I still have that feeling.” The blood of the Woosters is hot, and I was about to tell him in set terms what I thought of his bally feeling, when I suddenly spotted what it was that was making him crab the act.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII, VIII, AND XV”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

   “Bunny has a bad heart.” She glanced toward the corpse in the hallway. “The bally fool... the stupid, bally fool.

   1984, Armistead Maupin, Babycakes, page 134

1. UKdatedeuphemisticnot comparableVery.

   That was a bally foolish thing to do, old chap!

   Synonyms: blasted, dashed

plural ballies

1. Multicultural London EnglishA balaclava.

   I’ma get that iron, go and get the bally

   2017 June 10, “50 Cali”, in Wamp 2 Dem, performed by Giggs of SN1

   3 more examples

   With SB, no sideman Bally on my face like darg I’m silent (…) 3 up Silent and Violent Bally on my face, fuck Trident

   2017 January 7, “2Ls”, performed by Y.AM of 410

   Always I got my bally But sometimes I'm like fuck bally Cah long time I ain’t seen Savy And long time I ain’t seen Smarkz

   2017 February 8, “Call It”, performed by Bis of Harlem Spartans

   Now her pussy just dripping, when she sees the guys on stage Just like the old days, I’ll cause another tidal wave Just know that could’ve been you when you see me put one of the licence plate Bad B come to the Niz, shawty wanna do it like Diddy and Cassie Only if she knew I was rolling down ballies, still with a skeng on my lap in the backseat

   2018 April 29, “Missing”, performed by Headie One