wally

wally

See also: Wally

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒli/
• Rhymes: -ɒli

Noun

wally (plural wallies)

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

Verb

wally

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.

See also

• walleye

Anagrams

• lawly, yaw'll