whally

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʍɔːlɪ/, /ˈwɔːlɪ/

Adjective

whally (comparative more whally, superlative most whally)

  1. (possibly obsolete) Having a light-coloured iris of the eye.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      And next to him rode lustfull Lechery,
      Vpon a bearded Goat, whose rugged haire,
      And whally eyes (the signe of gelosy) […]
    • 1627(?), Richard Niccols, The beggers ape, page 14:
      Yet he with whally eyes and shaggy beard
    • 1970 [????], Henry Williamson, Collected Nature Stories, page 206:
      One of her eyes was whally, the other was inscrutable.

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