"plooky" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Scottish Gaelic ploe.",
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      "form": "more plooky",
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      "form": "most plooky",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1803, Sir Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: Historical Ballads, page 54:",
          "text": "He looked on the leper-man, Who lay on his queen's bed ; He lifted up the snaw-white sheets, And thus to him he said : — \" Plooky, plooky, are your cheeks, And plooky is your chin, And plooky are your armis twa, My bonny queen's layne in.",
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        {
          "ref": "1822, John Galt, The Provost:",
          "text": "For many a year, one Robin Boss had been town drummer ; — he was a relic of some American-war fencibles, and was, to say the God's truth of him, a divor bodie, with no manner of conduct, saving a very earnest endeavour to fill himself fou as often as he could get the means ; the consequence of which was, that his face was as plooky as a curran bun, and his nose as red as a partan's tae.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, page 245:",
          "text": "This is what it feels like to be so far down the pecking order that a plooky kid earning ninety quid a week to walk his dog along a derelict riverbank can assume she's his for the asking.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robert Douglas, Somewhere To Lay My Head, →ISBN:",
          "text": "To shave my plooky face in hot water is bad enough.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Covered in blotches or pimples."
      ],
      "id": "en-plooky-en-adj-QcWp1ML8",
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          "blotch",
          "blotch"
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          "pimple",
          "pimple"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Covered in blotches or pimples."
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        "Scotland"
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          "ref": "2003 August 25, hazel, “malformed reply address”, in microsoft.public.exchange.admin (Usenet):",
          "text": "I work as an IT assistant in a plooky wee company and theres always been problems with our Exchange 5.5 Server.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004 October 29, Wally, “S.A.D”, in uk.local.glasgow (Usenet):",
          "text": "It was a better effort than some of the crud that's been slithering down the ulg gutter lately - at least he attempted a build up (even if it was too quick and had a Flamebait Rating of zilch). Well written, but a bit plooky and gimboid; not quite a breath of fresh air, but better than slithering crud.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like a youth; inchoate, inexperienced."
      ],
      "id": "en-plooky-en-adj--MmrZn9O"
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      "form": "more plooky",
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          "ref": "1803, Sir Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: Historical Ballads, page 54:",
          "text": "He looked on the leper-man, Who lay on his queen's bed ; He lifted up the snaw-white sheets, And thus to him he said : — \" Plooky, plooky, are your cheeks, And plooky is your chin, And plooky are your armis twa, My bonny queen's layne in.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1822, John Galt, The Provost:",
          "text": "For many a year, one Robin Boss had been town drummer ; — he was a relic of some American-war fencibles, and was, to say the God's truth of him, a divor bodie, with no manner of conduct, saving a very earnest endeavour to fill himself fou as often as he could get the means ; the consequence of which was, that his face was as plooky as a curran bun, and his nose as red as a partan's tae.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, page 245:",
          "text": "This is what it feels like to be so far down the pecking order that a plooky kid earning ninety quid a week to walk his dog along a derelict riverbank can assume she's his for the asking.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robert Douglas, Somewhere To Lay My Head, →ISBN:",
          "text": "To shave my plooky face in hot water is bad enough.",
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        "Covered in blotches or pimples."
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        "(Scotland) Covered in blotches or pimples."
      ],
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          "ref": "2003 August 25, hazel, “malformed reply address”, in microsoft.public.exchange.admin (Usenet):",
          "text": "I work as an IT assistant in a plooky wee company and theres always been problems with our Exchange 5.5 Server.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 October 29, Wally, “S.A.D”, in uk.local.glasgow (Usenet):",
          "text": "It was a better effort than some of the crud that's been slithering down the ulg gutter lately - at least he attempted a build up (even if it was too quick and had a Flamebait Rating of zilch). Well written, but a bit plooky and gimboid; not quite a breath of fresh air, but better than slithering crud.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Like a youth; inchoate, inexperienced."
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