Bally
From the Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2017 James LaFond
MAR/27/17
“We knew no one but you could get us there with our heads still on our bally shoulders.”
-The Daughter of Erlik Khan
[bállee]
ADJECTIVE
1. used to express anger, frustration, or additional emphasis, a slang British euphemism for bloody
book of nightmares
the gods of boxing
on combat
broken dance
masculine axis
son of a lesser god
menthol rampage
ranger?
the sunset saga complete
z-pill forever
within leviathan’s craw
advent america
the combat space
hate
let the world fend for itself
your trojan whorse
when you're food
fanatic
the fighting edge
logic of force
blue eyed daughter of zeus
the greatest lie ever sold
wife—
honor among men
by the wine dark sea
predation
the greatest boxer
night city
fiction anthology one
into leviathan’s maw
uncle satan
beasts of aryas
thriving in bad places
the year the world took the z-pill
under the god of things
songs of aryas
on the overton railroad
america the brutal
orphan nation
fate
time & cosmos
winter of a fighting life
song of the secret gardener
taboo you
cracker-boy
the lesser angels of our nature
all-power-fighting
sons of aryas
solo boxing
the first boxers
triumph
logic of steel
dark, distant futures
sorcerer!
barbarism versus civilization
This one always cracks me up, for some reason. I get the impression that its use is confined to the officer/aristocrat class. I remember Group Captain Mandrake complaining about his "bally leg" (or was it shoulder?) in Dr. Strangelove.