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▪ I. † Sally, n.3 Obs.|ˈsælɪ|
Corruption of sal enixum. Also Sally Nixon.
1879G. Lunge Sulphuric Acid II. ii. 19 Sulphate known as ‘nitre-cake’, ‘salonix’ (= sal enixum), or ‘sally’. 1882W. Crookes Dyeing & Tissue-Printing 81 The crystallized sulphate of soda, known..in many dye-houses as Sally Nixon.
▪ II. Sally, n.5 colloq.|ˈsælɪ|
[Alteration of Salvation Army.]
1. a. The Salvation Army. Also with the, and attrib.
1915N.Y. World Mag. 9 May 14/3 Sally, nickname for Salvation Army. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route v. 52 The Salvation Army, more intimately known in Hobohemia as ‘The Sally’. 1977Gay News 7–20 Apr. 7/3 (heading) Sally soldier... A Salvation Army social worker who indecently assaulted young boys was sent to jail for three years at the Old Bailey recently.
b. A member of the Salvation Army; usu. pl., the Salvation Army.
1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King xx. 189 The surest place to find Sid Kidman, when in town on a Saturday night, was among the crowd around the ‘Sallies’. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §327/4 Sally, a Salvation Army girl. 1957D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over ii. 31 The woman that runs it, she used to be some sort of a high-up with the Sallies down in Sydney. 1966A. La Bern Goodbye Piccadilly iv. 43 The constable recommended the Salvation Army hostel... Why not? Better men than Dick Blamey have slept with the ‘Sallies’. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds iii. 65 It's a hotel for the workingman run by the Sallies.
2. A Salvation Army hostel.
1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 213 Sallies, Salvation Army hotels and industrial workshops. 1966New Statesman 1 Apr. 479/2 Julie Felix sang against the Salvation Army—and we were..miles away from the sad Sally where the meth-drinkers are deloused. 1977Church Times 18 Nov. 9/1 He knew that the only other places to find a bed—the ‘Sally’, the Cyrenian shelter, even the fairly distant ‘Spike’—would not have him that night.
3. Comb., as Sally Ann(e) [with colloq. alteration of Army], the Salvation Army; a Salvation Army hostel; Sally Army, the Salvation Army.
1927Amer. Speech II. 387/1 Sally Ann is the sobriquet for Salvation Army. 1961W. A. Hagelund Flying Chase Flag iii. 48 Now you go see the Major at the Johnson Street Sally Anne about some meal tickets and beds. 1976New Society 5 Aug. 290/3 The Salvation Army?.. You'd never get me sleeping there... Everyone knows you pick all sorts of things up from the Sally Ann.
1961E. Williams George xxiii. 386 Your dear Brother Tom has celebrated his thirteenth birthday with buying a uniform for the Sally Army. Ibid. xxvi. 441 Tom sat uneasily polishing his Sally-Army trumpet. 1978Guardian 9 Aug. 7/5 At Christmas, the Sally Army gave her a slap-up lunch. |