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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • British Used as a mild intensifier: very (almost exclusively used by the upper classes and often in conjuction with ''bally'').

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Noun:

  • A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
  • A tally shop.
  • Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
  • Later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
  • One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
  • Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number;

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Verb:

  • intransitive To correspond or agree
  • intransitive To keep score
  • transitive To count something
  • transitive To make things correspond or agree with each other
  • transitive To record something by making marks

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