bally-warche

English

Noun

bally-warche (plural bally-warches)

(Lancashire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
- 1867, Edwin Waugh, Th' Barrel Organ:
  Th' singers couldn't get forrud for laughin'. One on 'em whisper't to Thwittler, an' axed him if his fiddle had getten th' bally-warche.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.

References

Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238

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