pully-hawly n.
SE in slang uses
1. a wrestling bout.
Pierce Egan’s Life in London 19 June 165/2: [A] kind of Lancashire pulleyhawley kicking up and down work, and not particular as to two or three upon one. | ||
[ | Bell’s Penny Dispatch 8 May 2/5: A pull and haul-away struggle; Bungaree down on his latter end, and Brush on his knees]. | |
Mirror of Life 27 Apr. 10/2: [A] pulley hawley scramble between two great girls would have been quite as edifying as the match from which so much was anticipated. | ||
‘Two Battlers and a Bear’ in Lone Hand (Sydney) July 339/1: ‘S’pose yeh have a tough pully-haul ’ere once in a while?’. |
2. (Aus.) a lover.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Apr. 3/3: O cruel, cruel Juley Morley / Thus, thus to treat your Pully Hawley. |
In phrases
to have sexual intercourse.
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Pully hawly. To have a game at pully hawly; to romp with women. | |
Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 235: Réverbération, f. The act of kind; ‘the game of pully-hauly’. |