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sugarallie Sc. colloq.|ʃugəˈralɪ|
Also sugarellie |-ˈɛlɪ|, -olly |-ˈɑlɪ|, etc.
[A shortened form of sugar alicreesh, 16th-cent. Sc. sukker lagrace, succour alacreische, f. sugar n. + Du. lakk(e)ris liquorice, licorice.]
a. Liquorice.
1812P. Forbes Poems 21 Sulphur, salt fish, sugar allie. 1842Children in Mines Rep. App. 465 in Parl. Papers 1842 XVI. 1 Mother gives me 3d., which I spend in sugar⁓alleys and sweeties. 1876S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie iii. 53 The stock of candy and liquorice (known in that countryside by the name of ‘sugar-ally’). 1915A. S. Neill Dominie's Log xviii. 206 To-night I have a great craving for a stick of twisted sugarelly—the polite call it liquorice. 1921― Carroty Broon xvii. 229 Long tubes of sugarella. 1947L. Derwent Clashmaclavers 87 Whiles a lucky-bag I'd try, Or sticky sugar-alla buy.
b. Comb. sugarallie button a round sweet made of liquorice; sugarallie hat, a tall cylindrical hat, esp. as formerly worn by policemen; sugarallie water, a drink made by vigorously shaking a container in which water and a stick of liquorice have been placed.
1887A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends xx. 148 Havin' discovered that Flossie had a weakness for sugarellie buttons, Simpson has made it a habit to hae ane or twa o' thae sweetmeats in his pouch on courtin' nichts. 1887J. McBain Arbroath 104 Their bonnets were replaced by ‘sugarellie hats’. 1904‘H. Foulis’ Erchie 65 The sugaraully hats the polis used to hae. 1953J. J. Lavin Compass of Youth i. vi. 54 Yelling derisively: ‘Sugarawlly Hat,’ to the might and majesty of the law.
1889J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xxii. 207 Bairns..shook their bottles of sugarelly water into a froth. 1923W. D. Lyell Justice-Clerk i. iv. 26 What say ye to a sma' bottle o' sugaralie water? 1947J. F. Hendry Fernie Brae 10 Shall we make some sugarolly water? |