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Definition of scally in English: scallynounPlural scallies ˈskali informal (in the north-west of England, especially Liverpool) a roguish self-assured young person, typically a man, who is boisterous, disruptive, or irresponsible. 〈非正式〉（英格兰西北部，尤指利物浦的）浪荡子；（自以为是的）捣蛋鬼 at her Birkenhead school she was head girl, but also had a reputation for being a scally Example sentencesExamples - The scallies were gonnae smash the pub up if they didn't play.
- Outside Liverpool's Melwood training complex, a scally is bunking off school.
- Dodging the scallies on Chapel Street, I eventually found the said venue tucked away on Bloom Street.
- GLC must be the most harmonised pseudo scallies known to mankind; with nine of them on stage, each with synchronised movements and most definitely co-ordinated outfits.
- During the 1990s, Liverpool's biggest contribution to mainstream rock culture involved dispatching platoons of terrifying feral scallies to mug people at Glastonbury.
- We've called him Scallywag because he is a scally and his tail never stops wagging.
- By this point everyone's shouting along: hipsters, Ordsall scallies, students, indie kids, it's like Madchester all over again.
- With their tracksuit tops, lank hair and implausibly fresh faces, they look more like teenage scallies than harbingers of a musical revolution, but their enthusiasm is infectious.
- One of his conquests, who I shall call Gretchen because she has already suffered enough because of her association with the scally, revealed all to me…
- The boys are right scallies, sticking two fingers up to authority and getting into every scam going.
- We got to one of the entrance gates and followed the fence round until we met the first group of dodgy scallies.
- The sharp wit is important, but it needs to be complemented by something, or you're just a street-wise scally.
- In a dusty Mexican border town called Manchester, an aged gunslinger downs his last whiskey in the Cornerhouse Saloon before a vicious high-noon shoot out with the local scallies, nay… banditos…
- To be honest it is heaving with 16 year old scallies out on the pull.
- You get scallies down the front going mental, old fellas.
- He is visited by Pat, the black-market scally with retribution on his mind for the loss of the trawling father he never met.
- This place is full of scallies and is extremely expensive.
- We went out and found these scallies with a crowbar.
- At the end of the day it was just four scallies trying to make an album and it's had a profound effect on a lot of people, and that's what you do it for, innit?
- Students, scallies, scenesters, Madchester survivors, teenagers and 40-somethings, this band strike a chord in many a Mancunian heart in much the way the Roses did in their day.
Synonyms criminal, lawbreaker, outlaw, offender, felon, convict, jailbird, malefactor, wrongdoer, black hat, supervillain
Origin1980s: abbreviation of scallywag. |