bally

bal·ly

[bal-ee]
adjective, adverb British Slang.
damned (euphemism for bloody ).

Origin:
1840–50; by alteration

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Bal·ly

[bah-lee]
noun
a city in SW West Bengal, in E India, NW of Calcutta.
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Bally is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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bally1 (ˈbælɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj, —adv
slang (Brit) a euphemism for bloody

bally2 (ˈbælɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
dialect (Northern English) a thumb

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bally
1885, British, euphemism for bloody.
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