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Definition: Bally |
BallyAdjective1. (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) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bally, Pennsylvania."
Synonyms: BallySynonyms: bally(a) (adj), blinking(a) (adj), bloody(a) (adj), crashing(a) (adj), flaming(a) (adj), fucking(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bally |
| English words defined with "bally": blinking, bloody ♦ crashing ♦ flaming. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Bally. / Ambroise Tardieu direxit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 59.38% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 34.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bally | Last name | 200 | 38,630 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bally, PA (borough, FIPS 3984) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bally": bally-bonkers, bally-hoo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bally" (pronounced ba"lē or bā"lē) |
| 4 | b a" l ē | verbally. |
| 3 | -a" l ē | alley, dally, finale, galley, rally, Sally, tally, valley. |
| 4 | b ā" l ē | Bailey, Bailie. |
| 3 | -ā" l ē | daily, gaily, ukulele. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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