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▪ I. scally, n. orig. and chiefly Eng. regional slang (chiefly Lancs. and Liverpool).
Brit. |ˈskali|, U.S. |ˈskæli|
[Shortened ‹scallywag n.]
A young working-class person (esp. a man); spec. a roguish, self-assured male (esp. from Liverpool), typically regarded as boisterous, disruptive, or irresponsible. Also: a chancer, a petty criminal.
[1936E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest 43 During the interval we discussed, not whether the Scallies were good, but whether they were better or worse than the Wags. They were less hot stuff, that was admitted on all sides.] 1986End 15 18/1 You scallies would say Carm on scarse, two or three seasons back in a Cockney accent. 1990Independent 30 June 8, I think McCartney has the philosophy that he was one of four scallys who did it all with no assistance. It's the classic capitalist ideology. We've done it; why can't everyone else? 1996ikon Jan.–Feb. 45/1 Maybe even now some rat-faced scally is flogging bits of Brookside's storyline from a fly-by-night market stall. 2000A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 60 An Opel Omega full of Swiss tourists..caused panic..when they stopped to ask directions and their ‘CH’ plate sent all the scallies diving into doorways and running home for their nine mils.
▪ II. † ˈscally, a. Obs. rare.
[f. scall + -y.]
= scalled. Cf. scaly a. 4.
1530Palsgr. 323/1 Scally or scourfy, roigneux. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. 74 Over its [the Alligator's] Eyes there are two hard scally Knobs, as big as a Mans Fist.
Hence † ˈscalliness. (Cf. scaliness.)
1610Markham Masterp. i. xcv. 189 Any drynesse or scallynesse of the skinne. |