plooky

comparative more plooky · superlative most plooky

1. ScotlandCovered in blotches or pimples.

   To shave my plooky face in hot water is bad enough.

   2007, Robert Douglas, Somewhere To Lay My Head, →ISBN

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   He looked on the leper-man, Who lay on his queen's bed ; He lifted up the snaw-white sheets, And thus to him he said : — " Plooky, plooky, are your cheeks, And plooky is your chin, And plooky are your armis twa, My bonny queen's layne in.

   1803, Sir Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: Historical Ballads, page 54

   For many a year, one Robin Boss had been town drummer ; — he was a relic of some American-war fencibles, and was, to say the God's truth of him, a divor bodie, with no manner of conduct, saving a very earnest endeavour to fill himself fou as often as he could get the means ; the consequence of which was, that his face was as plooky as a curran bun, and his nose as red as a partan's tae.

   1822, John Galt, The Provost

   This is what it feels like to be so far down the pecking order that a plooky kid earning ninety quid a week to walk his dog along a derelict riverbank can assume she's his for the asking.

   1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, page 245

2. Like a youth; inchoate, inexperienced.

   I work as an IT assistant in a plooky wee company and theres always been problems with our Exchange 5.5 Server.

   2003 August 25, hazel, “malformed reply address”, in microsoft.public.exchange.admin (Usenet)

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   It was a better effort than some of the crud that's been slithering down the ulg gutter lately - at least he attempted a build up (even if it was too quick and had a Flamebait Rating of zilch). Well written, but a bit plooky and gimboid; not quite a breath of fresh air, but better than slithering crud.

   2004 October 29, Wally, “S.A.D”, in uk.local.glasgow (Usenet)