"plooky" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more plooky [comparative], most plooky [superlative]
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic ploe. Etymology templates: {{der|en|gd|ploe}} Scottish Gaelic ploe Head templates: {{en-adj}} plooky (comparative more plooky, superlative most plooky)
  1. (Scotland) Covered in blotches or pimples. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-plooky-en-adj-QcWp1ML8 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. Like a youth; inchoate, inexperienced.
    Sense id: en-plooky-en-adj--MmrZn9O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50

Download JSON data for plooky meaning in English (3.2kB)

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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": "2003 August 25, hazel, “malformed reply address”, in microsoft.public.exchange.admin (Usenet)",
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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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