Definitions for Bailie

Bailie bail·ie

Spelling: [bey-lee]
IPA: /ˈbeɪ li/

Bailie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Bailie (abeiil).

Definitions for Bailie

noun

  1. (in Scotland) a municipal officer or magistrate, corresponding to an English alderman.
  2. Obsolete. bailiff.

Origin of Bailie

1250-1300; Middle English baillie Old French bailli, variant of baillif bailiff

Examples for Bailie

I had ae fine customer, the bailie; he had eleven o' a family.

The next morning Edward went off to call on bailie Macwheeble.

At the turning of the road which led to Tully-Veolan, the bailie met them.

But the Highlander who had been so ready on the bailie's behalf was now nowhere to be found.

The question, abruptly put, seemed to knock the worthy bailie all of a heap.

The bailie, notwithstanding the success of his first onset, was sorely bested.

I suspect, Tom, you and the bailie were rather convivial after supper.

The goose was smoking on the table, and the bailie brandished his knife and fork.

The bailie was sick—an' my laddie, wee Sandy, was aye plaguin' me for a sled.

But it was bailie Macwheeble who had paid the money without my father's knowledge.

Word Value for Bailie
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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