Sally

Definitions: Sally

Sally

Noun

1. Witty remark.

2. A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position.

3. A venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home".

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

"Sally" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lady", "a princess".

Date "sally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Literature

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

Synonyms: Sally

Attack

Aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.

Defense

Loophole, machicolation; sally port.

Departure

Verb: depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.

Egress

Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.

Wit

Jest, joke, jape, jibe; facetiae, levity, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae nugae; standing jest, standing joke, private joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto, plaisanterie, brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot, mot pour rire; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit,epigram; jest book; dry joke, quodlibet, cream of the jest.

Crosswords: Sally

Tell 'em if I ain't back in a week, they give half to Sally Two Trees. (Unforgiven; writing credit: Walon Green; Roy N. Sickner)

First the Sally Weaver thing, now this! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Sally, there's something in my eye! (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

Sally Miles, America's G-rated darling, in the B-U-F-F? (S.O.B.; writing credit: Blake Edwards)

Gunny, Sally is our child. (Born to Dance; writing credit: Buddy G. DeSylva; Jack McGowan)

We'd play all day with Sally J ("Good Company"; performing artist: Queen)

Sally, tell me once again ("JESSE"; performing artist: Carly Simon)

Lay down, Sally, and rest you in my arms. ("LAY DOWN SALLY"; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON)

Silly as Sally then found in alleys, I'm rowdy really ("Feel Me Flow"; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Are Roland and Sally rallying here in their lorry? (references; author: unknown)

Sally sells seashells by the seashore. (references; author: unknown)

Dirty Sally (1974)

Sally - heiß wie ein Vulkan (1973)

The Dirty Mind of Young Sally (1970)

Mahô tsukai Sally (1966)

Sally and Sam (1965)

Sally Go 'Round The Roses (performing artist: The Jaynetts)

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

Books

• Sally Goes to the Beach (reference)

• Sally Goes to the Farm (reference)

• Silly Sally (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• When Harry Met Sally... (reference)

• Sally of the Sawdust (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bridging the Day: Works for Cello & Piano by Sally Beamish (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Age well photos by Sally and Richard Greenhill and Photo Co-op.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Rose McNaught, Sally Gould and Joan Gardner].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

One day a dowager, of that impertinent variety who think themselves witty, addressed this sally to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expressions using "sally": Aunt Sally ♦ black sally ♦ make a sally ♦ sally bun ♦ sally forth ♦ sally lunn ♦ sally out ♦ sally port ♦ yellow Sally. Additional references.

Beginning with "sally": Sally-ann, Sally-anne, Sally-b.

Ending with "sally": shilly-sally.

Albanian

Shpërthim (access, blast, blowout, burst, conniption, detonation, effusion, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare up, furor, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, tornado), Shëtitje (jaunt, outing, promenade, ride, round, saunter, stroll, walk, walking), Vërsulje (rush), Turrje (dart, dash, rush), Hedhje Në Sulm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملاحظة صائبة, ‏مباغتة (abruptness, surprise), ‏هجمة (offensive, sortie), ‏هجم على (go at), ‏قام برحلة (journey, trip, voyage), ‏طلعة (aspect, brow, countenance, mien, presence, visage), ‏رحلة (drive, journey, junket, peregrination, touring, travel, trip, voyage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тръгвам (depart, drive off, get along, get going, get off, leave, pull away, pull off, put, put forth, set forth, set off, set on, set out, shove off, start, wend, wend one's way), отправям се (beetle, proceed, repair, start, wend, wend one's way), запътвам се, �"уховита Забележка, �'незапно Нападение От Обсада, �'илазка, Излет, Изблик, правя вилазка, излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

突围 (Sallies). (various references)

Czech

Výpad (drive, lunge, pass, sortie, swipe, thrust), Duchaplná Poznámka. (various references)

Farsi 

یورش اوردن (Raid, Sortie, Storm), یورش (Assault, Attack, Offense, Offensive, Onrush, Onslaught, Pash, Pounce, Raid, Rush, Sortie), حمله ورشدن , حمله (Access, Assault, Attack, Charge, Inroad, Offense, Offensive, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught, Rush, Spell, Venue), حرکت سریع (Braid), جواب سریع وزیرکانه , شلیک کردن (Salvo, Volley), شلیک (Volley). (various references)

Finnish

sutkaus (quip, witticism). (various references)

French

Sortie, Saillie (salience, salient), chaussette � spinnaker, Boutade, Attaque. (various references)

German

Ausfall (blackout, breach of security, breakdown, cancellation, catastrophic failure, dropout, drop-out, dropping out, failure, failure to operate, hard error, hardware error, hazard, loss, lunge, non-departure, non-operation, omission, pass, retirement, sortie, stoppage, thrust, trouble), Ausbruch (blow out, blowing, blowing of a well, blow-out, blow-up, break out, breakaway, burst, channel displacement, eruption, escape, explosion, gush, gust, jailbreak, notch, onset, outbreak, outburst, outflanking, raptures, shower). (various references)

Greek 

έξοδοσ (debouchment, egress, exit, expenditure, issue, outlet, sortie, way out), Εκπηδώ, Εκδρομή, Εξόρμηση, Εξορμώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ֲיח�", ִתקפת װתע, ִער�" קולעת, װרץ. (various references)

Hungarian

Kirohanás (sortie), szellemes ötlet (conceit, crack, sally of wit), kirándulás (excursion, hike, hiking, maroon, outing, picnic, run, spin, tour, trip), csipkelődés (jape, raillery, scoffing), csintalanság (wickedness), érzelemkitörés (ebullition of feeling). (various references)

Italian

Sortita (sortie), guaina dello spinnaker (dowser, snuffer, sock, spinnaker sleeve, squeezer, strangler), Fare Una Sortita, Battuta (bar, bat, beat, blow, bump, gag, knock, punch, rabbet, rebate, serve, service, shot, stroke, wham), Andarsene (absent, absent onself, buzz off, depart, get along, go, go away, leave). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

出�'� (sortie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅつ�'き (sortie). (various references)

Korean 

출격 (Sallies, sortie). (various references)

Manx

Sallee, ratchal magh (dash out), ratch magh. (various references)

Pig Latin

allysay.(various references)

Portuguese

Surtida, Saída (blow off, canal, delivery, departure, door, drop off, dropout, efflux, egression, escape, escapism, exhaust, exit, exogamy, jet, jet stream, leave, out, outfit, out-jockey, outlet, output, output data, output process, outturn, shift-out, sortie, terminal, thrust, turn out, way out), Gracejo (banter, frolic, fun, gag, jest, jocosity, joke, pleasantry, raillery, sport, waggery), Excursão (excursion, flight, jaunt, outing, run, sightseeing trip, tour, trip, tripping, wander), Ataque (access, aggression, assault, attack, attempt, bout, corrosion, degradation, destruction, deterioration, etching, fit, fling, gust, impugnment, invasion, investment, lifting, offensive, onflow, onrush, onset, outburst, paroxysm, periodic onset, raising, rush, shock), Arremetida (attack, onrush, onslaught, rush), Acesso (access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, attack, attact, bout, door, entry, fit, flush, gateway, outburst, paroxysm, periodic onset, port, promotion, stroke, touch). (various references)

Romanian

Vorbã De Spirit (witticism), Vorbã De Duh (crack, jest, joke), Manifestare (act, deed, emergence, exercise, exhibition, loose, manifestation, occurrence, piece, show), Ieşire Bruscã, Ieşire A Asediaţilor, Excursie Scurtã, Escapadã (escapade). (various references)

Russian 

Прогулка, Поездка, �'ылазка. (various references)

Scottish

brùchd (belch, burst forth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izliv (blaze, drain, ebullition, effluence, outburst, outflow, outpour, outpouring), ispad (sortie), dosetka (jest, joke, quip, witticism), šala (dalliance, dido, farce, fun, have on, jest, joke, lark, pleasantry, rag, rib, trick). (various references)

Spanish

Salida (audio output, demand, departure, deportation, egress, emancipation, emergence, exit, export, gateway, going, killing, off, outburst, outcome, outflow, outlet, output, output process, putting to sea, recourse, rise, rising, sale, sortie, start, terminal, turn, turn off, walkout, way out), Paseo (alley, constitutional, corridor, crossing, drive, excursion, expedition, gut, junket, Mall, outing, passage, perambulation, platform, promenade, public walking, ride, row, sail, saunter, shoulder, spin, stroll, tour, trip, verge, walk, walking, wander), Ocurrencia Graciosa, Hacer Una Salida, Arranque (blasting, blaze, coal-getting, dash, getting, jerk, light, mining, outbreak, outburst, pulling out, rock breaking, root, run, skewback, spasm, springing, starting, start-up, stoping, winning). (various references)

Swedish

Utfall (fulmination, issue, lunge, pass, result, sortie, turnout), Utfärd (excursion, jaunt), Kvickhet (conceit, esprit, joke, quip, salt, wisecrack, wit, witticism). (various references)

Turkish

Nükte (epigram, mot, salt, wit, witticism), Gezinti (airing, excursion, hike, jaunt, outing, prom, promenade, ride, run, stroll, trip, walk, walking tour), Espri (crack, drollery, humor, humour, quip, quirk, salt, wisecrack, witticism), Dolaşma (circuit, going around, implication, kink, perambulation, ride, roam, walkabout, winding), Dışarıya Hücum, Çıkış Hareketi. (various references)

Ukranian 

Прогулянка, Епіграма, �'ирушати, �'ириватися, �'илазка, Спалах, � обити �'илазку. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phá vây cuộc đi chơi, cuộc đi dạo sự bùng nổ câu nói hóm hỉnh. (various references)

Welsh

rhuthr (attack, rush). (various references)

excurram, excursus, salire. (various references)

saillie. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sally": sallying. (additional references)

Words ending with "sally": basally, causally, colossally, commensally, dorsally, hypabyssally, intranasally, mesally, misally, nasally, phrasally, universally. (additional references)

Words containing "sally": misallying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cally, Esally, Salala, salel, sali, salie, salil, sall, s'all, Salla, Sallay, salle, sallie, sallin, Salya, salz, Sapley, saully, sauly, Sazli, sellby, selli, selly, Sgall, shally, sialyl, Silali, Silley, Sillie, sily, smalley, solly, sulley, usally. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alls, ally, lays, sall, slay.

-2 letters: all, als, ays, las, lay, sal, say, sly.

-3 letters: al, as, ay, la, ya.

+1 letter: alkyls, allays, alleys, alloys, allyls, ballsy, lastly, psylla.

+2 letters: alanyls, alphyls, argylls, basally, cullays, falsely, galleys, mesally, misally, nasally, psyllas, rallyes, salably, sallowy, saltily, slackly, squally, stalely, syllabi, usually, valleys.

+3 letters: allayers, allonyms, astrally, callboys, calycles, casually, causally, classily, disloyal, dismally, distally, dorsally, drywalls, eyeballs, festally, fiscally, flashily, glassily, hallways, langleys, lavishly, loyalest, loyalism, loyalist, mesially, payrolls, playless, playlets, playlist, postally, rallyist, rascally, rollways, sailorly, saleably, sallowly, sallying, salvably, scalably, serially, sexually, signally, slangily, sleazily, socially, spillway, spinally, spirally, stalkily, syllabic, syllable, syllabub, syllabus, tallboys, tallyhos, tollways, vestally, visually, walleyes, waybills, weaselly.

+4 letters: abysmally, agelessly, aimlessly, alkylates, alleyways, allostery, allotypes, amaryllis, aphyllies, artlessly, asexually, ballyhoos, ballyrags, bashfully, basically, bestially, billycans, bullyrags, callosity, callously, calyculus, carryalls, cyclicals, damselfly, daylilies, easefully, fallaways, flyleaves, haplessly, insularly, jealously, ladyloves, ladypalms, lallygags, laryngals, lastingly, lawlessly, lollygags, loyalisms, loyalists, loyalties, lysosomal, methylals, musically, parlously, phrasally, plausibly, playbills, playgirls, playlands, playlists, polygalas, rallyings, rallyists, rostrally, saleslady, saliently, scallywag, scholarly, secularly, semblably, seminally, sensually, severally, shallowly, similarly, slavishly, sonically, spatially, specially, spillways, splashily, squalidly, stoically, surreally, suturally, syllabary, syllabics, syllabify, syllabled, syllables, syllabubs, synclinal, teleplays, tomalleys, unusually, welladays, wellaways, willywaws, zealously.

+5 letters: absolutely, allotypies, allusively, amyloplast, ayatollahs, bellyaches, bellybands, bisexually, boastfully, buckyballs, carelessly, clannishly, colossally, cosmically, desolately, disloyally, disloyalty, disyllabic, disyllable, episomally, especially, fabulously, fearlessly, flawlessly, galactosyl, gesturally, ghastfully, gladsomely, harmlessly, hyaloplasm, hypallages, insolvably, jellybeans, laryngeals, misallying, miscellany, mosaically, muscularly, myeloblast, mystically, namelessly, osmolality, painlessly, pastorally, personally, phyllaries, physically, planlessly, plasmolyze, playfields, pleasantly, pleasingly, qualmishly, residually, rustically, sagittally, salability, salicylate, salutarily, scallywags, scenically, seamlessly, seasonally, shamefully, sibilantly, singularly, skeletally, slantingly, slashingly, slatternly, sluggardly, societally, solitarily, spectrally, specularly, stalwartly, statically, stealthily, sterically, subtotally, subvocally, suicidally, superalloy, supernally, surgically, syllabling, syllabuses, symbolical, tactlessly, tastefully, unsocially, valorously, viscerally, visionally, wastefully, wavelessly.

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