Pally vs Pall - What's the difference?
pally | pall |
Like a pal; friendly.
* 1929 , Basil Woon, From Deauville to Monte Carlo ,
* 1942 , Seán O'Faoláin, Peadar O'Donnell, The Bell , Volume 5,
* 1987 , Alan Sillitoe, Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader ,
* 2006 , Vidar Helgesen, Erik Solheim, The Straight Talkers'', Harriet Martin (editor), Kofi Atta Annan (foreword), ''Kings of Peace, Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peace-Making ,
* 2010 , Donald Munro, Diaries of a Stretcher-Bearer 1916-1918 ,
* 2011 , David Rowley, Erections in the Far East ,
(US) An affectionate term of address.
*1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 164:
*:‘Sit here, pally .’ He pushed me down.
* 1951 , Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life ,
* 1968 , , Tattoo Marks and Nails'', ''A Walk in the Night: And Other Stories ,
* 1993 , , The Era: 1947-1957, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World ,
(US, Australia) A slightly derogatory and insulting term of address.
(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
* Fuller
(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) nausea
(senseid) A feeling of gloom.
To cloak.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
* Atterbury
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
* Addison
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
As a noun pally
is (colloquial) a palestinian.As a proper noun pall is
, cognate to paul.pally
English
Adjective
(en-adj)page 157,
- The O?Briens are the palliest of pals with the Prince of Wales and when HRH is in Biarritz he and Jay are inseparable.
page 157,
- Words are the friendliest and palliest things I know.
page 30,
- he was a champion boozer and the palliest bloke in the pub.
page 112,
- And with each round the two negotiating teams got more and more pally . ‘By the sixth round we were having Jacuzzis together!’
page 100,
- When there were Australian officers everyone was more pally and sociable which made it easier for the lady in charge to entertain the party.
page 19,
- The chap I?m most pally with is Fright who is nearly sixty now but still climbs like a youngster.
Noun
(pallies)page M-77,
- Well, a lot of water has flown under the bridges since then, pally , and while I have been laying off lately, I?m still the same old Joey, which is more than I can say for that O?Hara creep.
page 95,
- Ahmed the Turk grinned. “You call this hot, chommy? Pally , we used to take slices off the heat, put them on our biscuits and make toast.”
page 342,
- As the Giants moved West, most accpted Horace Stoneham?s apologia: “I can?t stay where I am, pally . If I don?t move the team I go bankrupt. Except for Chub [Feeney], all my relatives would starve.”
- What do you think you are doing, pally ?
pall
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
- His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
- (Shaftesbury)
- A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
- The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Derived terms
* cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulinSynonyms
* (heraldry) pairleVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.Verb
(en verb)- Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
- The liquor palls .
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
- We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.