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Quotation dates: 1845, 1910
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†PALIE, adj.2 Sweet-tasting, delicious (Edb. 1898 J. Baillie W. Crichton 285). Heriot's Hospital slang.Edb. 1845 F. W. Bedford Heriot's Hosp. (1859) 347:
He has aye plenty of sock, real palie kind. He makes us a' to gush.Edb. 1910 Scotsman (3 Sept.):
The spoil of the neighbouring gardens “yapps” (apples) and “blobbs” (gooseberries) were “palie” to the palate of the foundationers [George Heriot's].
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