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Bally

Definition: Bally

Bally

Adjective

1. (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)


Specialty Definition: Bally, Pennsylvania

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bally is a borough located in Berks County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 1,062.

Geography


Bally is located at 40°24'4" North, 75°35'18" West (40.401044, -75.588365)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,062 people, 413 households, and 304 families residing in the borough. The population density is 788.5/km² (2,030.4/mi²). There are 426 housing units at an average density of 316.3/km² (814.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 98.78% White, 0.47% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.47% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.09% from two or more races. 0.28% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 413 households out of which 28.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% are married couples living together, 10.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.2% are non-families. 22.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.57 and the average family size is 2.98. In the borough the population is spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 18.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.7 males. The median income for a household in the borough is $49,063, and the median income for a family is $56,406. Males have a median income of $37,750 versus $25,000 for females. The per capita income for the borough is $24,537. 1.6% of the population and 0.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.2% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bally, Pennsylvania."

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Synonyms: Bally

Synonyms: bally(a) (adj), blinking(a) (adj), bloody(a) (adj), crashing(a) (adj), flaming(a) (adj), fucking(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bally

English words defined with "bally": blinking, bloodycrashingflaming. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bally

DomainTitle

References

  • Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Bally Murphy & the Irish War (reference)

  • Bally Slot Machines: An Illustrated Guide to the 285 Most Popular Electro-Mechanical and Series E Models (reference)

  • BALLY TOTAL FITNESS HOLDING CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Geology of Passive Continental Margins: History, Structure and Sedimentologic Record. by A.W. Bally (Et Al). Notes from 1981 Atlantic Margin Energy co (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Bally

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Bally. / Ambroise Tardieu direxit. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bally

"Bally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 59.38% of the time. "Bally" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)59.38%1980,337
Noun (proper)34.38%11106,044
Noun (singular)6.25%2245,945
                    Total100.00%32N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bally

The following table summarizes the usage of "bally" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BallyLast name20038,630
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Bally

CountryName
USA

Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Bally


1. Bally, PA (borough, FIPS 3984)
Location: 40.40095 N, 75.58874 W
Population (1990): 973 (370 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 19503
Country: USA

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Expressions: Bally

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bally": bally-bonkers, bally-hoo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bally

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bally fitness

1,088

bally hotel las vegas

17

bally

953

bally gaming system

15

bally shoes

247

bally jagpal

15

bally sagoo

102

bally pennsylvania

15

bally gym

56

bally golf shoes

14

bally gaming

54

bally slot

14

bally health club

51

bally club sports

13

bally fitness center

50

bally wallet

13

bally s.com

35

bally shoes store

12

bally handbag

34

bally atlantic city

12

bally hotel

34

bally s las vegas

11

bally pinball

32

bally hotel casino

10

bally man shoes

31

bally health

9

las vegas bally

29

bally s

9

bag bally

24

bally s casino

9

bally of switzerland

22

bally game

9

bally slot machine

20

bally purse

8

bally pinball machine

20

bally hanji sagoo

8

bally casino

17

bally midway

7

bally club fitness

17

bally from gaming slot

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Bally

Language Translations for "bally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i madh (big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏شيطان (archenemy, demon, devil, familiar, fiend, lucifer, pestilential, pixy, prince of darkness, puckish, satan, serpent). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

много (almighty, amain, awfully, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed). (various references)

   

French

  

satané, sacré. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyavalyás (bang, blankety-blank, bloody, bum, crock, damn, damned, flaming, potty, ratty), átkozottul (damned, deuced, deucedly, perishing), rettenetesen (awful, awfully, fiendishly, hideously, horribly), nyomorult (abject, blankety-blank, bum, damned, godforsaken, jay, miserable, pimping, slave, wretch, wretched), átkozott (accursed, bang, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bloody, cursed, curst, damn, damned, darn, dratted, durn, goddam, goddamn, perishing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allybay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

maldito (accursed, accurst, blasted, cursed, cussed, darned, dratted, pesky, ruddy, unblessed). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), afurisit (accursed, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ужасно (atrociously, awesomely, awfully, beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dooms, fearfully, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, terribly), чертовский (blinking, deuced, devilish, god-awful, goddamn, helluva). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

excesivamente (exceedingly, excessively, extravagantly, redundantly, unduly, unreasonably). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

braskande reklam, sabla (blasted), jäkla (blasted, blooming, cursed, cussed, damn, deuced, devilish, dratted, lousy, ruddy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Bally

Derivations

Words beginning with "bally": ballyhoo, ballyhooed, ballyhooing, ballyhoos, ballyrag, ballyragged, ballyragging, ballyrags. (additional references)

Words ending with "bally": globally, nonverbally, tribally, verbally. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bally"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bally" (pronounced ba"lē or bā"lē)
4b a" l ēverbally.
3-a" l ēalley, dally, finale, galley, rally, Sally, tally, valley.
4b ā" l ēBailey, Bailie.
3-ā" l ēdaily, gaily, ukulele.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bally

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-l-l-y"

-1 letter: ably, ally, ball.

-2 letters: aby, alb, all, bal, bay, lab, lay.

-3 letters: ab, al, ay, ba, by, la, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-l-l-y"
 

+1 letter: baldly, ballsy.

 

+2 letters: balkily, balmily, banally, basally, blackly, blandly, blankly, bleakly, callboy, eyeball, flyable, lovably, lullaby, pliably, salably, syllabi, tallboy, wallaby, waybill.

 

+3 letters: aborally, balladry, ballyhoo, ballyrag, billycan, blackfly, blamably, blearily, bridally, brutally, buccally, bullyrag, callboys, culpably, eyeballs, fallibly, flabbily, globally, gullably, labially, lability, laudably, lobately, loveably, oblately, palpably, placably, playable, playbill, reliably, ribaldly, saleably, salvably, scalably, syllabic, syllable, syllabub, syllabus, tallboys, tribally, valuably, verbally, violably, waybills.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Cities
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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