Parʹlous
.A corrupt form of perilous, in slang = our modern use of “awful,” amazing, wondrous.
“Oh! ʹtis a parlous lad.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.