whally

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/ˈʍɔːlɪ//ˈwɔːlɪ/

adjective

Having a light-coloured iris of the eye.

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Meanings

adjectivewhally (comparative more whally, superlative most whally)

comparative more whally · superlative most whally

  1. obsoletepossiblyHaving a light-coloured iris of the eye.

    Yet he with whally eyes and shaggy beard

    1627(?), Richard Niccols, The beggers ape, page 14
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    And next to him rode lustfull Lechery, Vpon a bearded Goat, whose rugged haire, And whally eyes (the signe of gelosy) […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

    One of her eyes was whally, the other was inscrutable.

    1970 [????], Henry Williamson, Collected Nature Stories, page 206
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