Meanings
nounbally-wartch (plural bally-wartches)
plural bally-wartches
- alternativeLancashireAlternative spelling of bellywark.
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.
1865, Benjamin Brierley, Irkdale, or, the Odd House in the Hollow, volume 1, page 26
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