bally-wartch

English

Noun

bally-wartch (plural bally-wartches)

(Lancashire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
- 1865, Benjamin Brierley, Irkdale, or, the Odd House in the Hollow‎, volume 1, page 26:
  It edges my teeth wurr nor a railroad whitle when it's yeawlin like a kennol o' clemmed heawnd-shelps, or a donkey wi'th' bally-wartch.
- 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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