wally

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see also: Wally

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /wɒli/

Noun

wally (plural wallies)

1. (British, slang) a fool
2. (colloquial, London and Essex) a large pickled gherkin or cucumber

Verb

1. (colloquial, obsolete, Essex) Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value
   • 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes

     Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em.

Adjective

wally (not comparable)

1. (Of eyes) unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 179,

     […] one of his eyes was wally, a condition common among the natives of the land. (Here the first meaning is intended, as indicated later in the text:) […] turned his one black eye on the kindly man […] (p. 183)

   • 2007, www.urbandictionary.com,

     You are freaking me out with your wally eye. One of your eyes is doing its own thing.

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Wally

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Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo and Walter and Wallabee and Wallace.
   • 2005 Joyce Carol Oates: Mother, Missing. Harper Perennial. page 108:

     "'Mr. Szalla' is my eighty-two-year-old father, Nikki. Please call me 'Wally'."

     "Well. 'Wally'."

     I felt my face burn pleasantly. "Wally" was such a comfortable old-shoe kind of name.

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