baalee

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English baly (“bailiff”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bailif. Cognate with Scots bylly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːˈliː/

Noun

baalee

1. A clever person.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 24