pally

[pal-ee]

pal·ly

[pal-ee]
adjective, pal·li·er, pal·li·est. Informal.
friendly; comradely: old friends being pally at a class reunion.

Origin:
1890–95; pal + -y1
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Pally is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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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pally (ˈpælɪ)
 
adj , -lier, -liest
informal on friendly or familiar terms

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pally (with (so)) definition


  1. mod.
    friendly or overly friendly with someone. : I don't know why Sue acts so pally. I hardly know her.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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