▪ I. pally
(ˈpælɪ)
Colloq. abbrev. and spelling of palais de danse.
| 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley xi. 189 The new girls in their silk stockings, the new collier lads lounging into the Pally or the Welfare. 1947 I. Brown Say Word 72 Whether with hurdy-gurdy on the pavement or with boogie-woogie in the ‘Pally’, still they favour a word with rhyming syllables. 1948 Amer. Speech XXIII. 319/2 Pally, dance hall (in England abbreviation for Palais de Dance). |
▪ II. pally, a.
slang, companionable, ‘chummy’: see pal.
▪ III. pally
variant of paly a.2 Her.