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palsies

palsies is the plural of palsy.

palsies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of palsy.

Meaning of palsy

Noun (1)

palsy (countable and uncountable, plural palsies)

  1. Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
    • The palsie plagues my pulses
      when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
      your culuers take, or matchles make
      your Chanticleare or sullenc. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
    Synonyms:
    paralysis

Noun (2)

palsy (plural palsies)

  1. (slang) Mate, chum.
    • Listen, palsy, you're not the boss.2013, James Hadley Chase, You Can Say That Again

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Phrases with palsies

Questions about palsies

What is palsies the plural of?
Palsies is the plural of palsy.

Words near palsies in the dictionary

  1. palships
  2. palsical
  3. palsie
  4. palsied
  5. palsiedly
  6. palsies
  7. palsification
  8. palstaff
  9. palstaffs
  10. palstave
  11. palstaves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palsies (page history and authors); palsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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