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n. (context informal English) A pearly king or pearly queen.
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Pearlie is a 2009 Australian/ Canadian animated comedy series based on the children's book series Pearlie the Park Fairy by Wendy Harmer. Pearlie is a co-production between Australian children's television producer Sticky Pictures and Canadian animation house Nelvana. The series aired on Network Ten in Australia, in North America by YTV in Canada and Qubo in the United States, and in the United Kingdom on Pop Girl. Australian media distributor Madman Entertainment released five DVDs of Pearlie in 2010.
Usage examples of "pearlie".
He climbed back up on Horse and called out, “Cal, Pearlie, wake your lazy butts up and I’ll treat you to some breakfast over at Longmont’s.
Smoke waited until Cal and Pearlie waded back and climbed in the buckboard, then he glanced over to the men harnessing the mule.
He vowed to make this winter with her a special time, away from the day-to-day chores around the ranch which were now being done by Pearlie, Cal, and Johnny North… what little there was to do with no beef cattle on the place, only the horse herd and old Rosie, their Jersey milk cow, to attend to.
When Smoke pointed to a good long-backed cow, Pearlie and Cal and Duke cut it away from the main herd to a lower meadow, where Smoke’s selections were being held in a bunch by Bob Williams and Cletus Walker, along with a pair of Chisum cowboys.
Bob and Johnny held the flank positions, keeping wandering strays driven back, while Pearlie and Duke rode point on either side, aiming lead cows in the right direction.
Damn it all, Wally, do you want to make little Pearlie look like a fool?
If Pearlie doesn't put a good face on it in court, and act like a girl who is wronged the judge will think you've forced her into the action, and the defence lawyers will get it out of her, and you'll look like a tyrant and a fool as well.
I just hope he doesn't scare all the boys away from Pearlie because of it.
But obviously there's a Thing between Pearlie and Solly right now -- at this stage of their relationship, I mean.
I guess you all know that Pearlie is one hell of a swell kid, but life hasn't been much fun for her.
I don't want to introduce a solemn note now but as a psychologist and as a professional in guidance I know what can happen in a life which lacks what I call the Faith Focus, and there's nobody more pleased than I -- and I know here that I speak for Dutchy too -- that Pearlie has found herself, and that all those doubts and fears and misgivings are sublimated in that vast Power the happiness of which is something upon which Dutchy and I feel ourselves peculiarly qualified to speak.
So I ask you to drink to Pearlie and Solly, and if I can remember it I'll just recite a little verse that seems to fit the occasion.
At least, he heard an awful noise, and went to his front door, and there was Vambrace walloping Pearlie with the stick.
What I'm trying to get at is that your desire to keep Pearlie from her natural love-object, to keep her all to yourself, is -- well, let's not say unnatural.
All that Freudian stuff is pretty complicated, and anyway I'm sure things haven't got that far yet with you and Pearlie -- if I make myself clear.