Scalie vs Scalier - What's the difference?
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(North America, dated, derogatory, slang) A strikebreaker.
* 1908 , "On the Firing Line", Machinists' Monthly Journal , Vol. 20, No. 11, November 1908,
* 1911 , "From Brittania Lodge, No. 361", Railway Carmen's Journal , Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1911,
* 1935 , International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union Journal , Vol. 30,
(Australia, slang) A weighbridge worker.
* 1984 , Bruce Stannard, "The demons that haunt the long-run truckies", The Bulletin , 7 August 1984,
* 1991 , Leslie P. Richards, Truckin' Tales: The Early Days , Lulu.com (2007), ISBN 9781847532626,
* 2009 , John Andersen, "
(US, informal) A scaled quail (Callipepla squamata ).
* 2003 , Durwood Hollis, Hunting Upland Game & Waterfowl , Krause Publications (2003), ISBN 9781440226793,
* 2003 , Ben O. Williams, Winston: The Life of a Gun Dog , Willow Creek Press (2003), ISBN 1572237058,
* 2007 , Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts , HarperCollins (2007), ISBN 9780061343827,
* 2008 , Tom Arnhold & Web Parton, Wingshooter's Guide to Kansas Upland Birds and Waterfowl , Wilderness Adventures Press, Inc. (2008), ISBN 9781932098440,
(furry fandom) A reptile or reptile-like animal character with human characteristics.
(furry fandom) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being such a character.
(scaly)
Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
(dated, vulgar, or, South African) Mean; low.
Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
(South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, .
As a noun scalie
is a strikebreaker.As an adjective scalier is
comparative of scaly.scalie
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Noun
(en noun)page 998:
- While we were there a couple of scalies came out and started up the street, but seeing the strikers there they turned around and went back into the saloon.
page 129:
- In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.
page 830:
- In Dallas, women scalies' cursed women pickets; four pickets went to jail for disorderly conduct while the ' scalies went on to work.
page 68:
- even allowing for the detours through the back roads to avoid the "scalies " who man the highway truck-weight checking stations.
page 43:
- Approaching Port Augusta I had lights flashed at me, warning that the weighbridge was open. I expected this because the scalies had passed me on the road earlier.
Floodwater graveyard", Townsville Bulletin , 3 March 2009:
- Scalies are stationed 24/7 on the northern outskirts of the Towers to ensure no one does tries to do a rat-run. The weight limit might soon impact on a large number of jobs.
pages 40-41:
- About the same size as the valley quail and the Gambel's quail, the scaled quail is often referred to as the "drab shirttail relative." Gray-blue in color (often known locally as "blue quail"), with a slight black tipping of the chest and breast plumage that creates scalelike markings, (hence the nickname "scalies "),
page 165:
- I sensed the birds' presence, but I had no idea if they were Gambel's or scalies , even though the habitat read scaled quail.
page 212:
- Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies .
page 56:
- Scalies are more prone to be in open grass away from cover.
Synonyms
*(strikebreaker) blackleg, scabCoordinate terms
* (furry fandom senses) avian, furryscalier
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*scaly
English
Adjective
(er)- a scaly fellow