pialler

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

v.


used as pigeon-English, especially inQueensland and New South Wales, in the sense of yabber,to speak.

1834. L. E. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar,' p. 10:

[As a barbarism] « piyaller, to speak.»

1885. R. M. Praed, `Head Station,' p. 314:

«Hester seized the shrinking black and led him forward, wildlycrying that she would `pialla' the Great Spirit, so that noevil should befall him.»