wallies
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of wallies
see wally ²
Example Sentences
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"Wellies and wallies," he called it, and then there were the caterwauling bagpipes: "These Games have sounded like carving-knife time in an Isle of Man cattery."
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013
There were no wallies under brollies on the touchline.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2010
Our pre-season predictions were the aggregate of the forecasts of a dozen scribes, so under our collective brolly some prescient folks jostled with the wallies.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2010
None of the times'll come again like the ones when we went home on Lass, or in the spring-cart, or walked, and chased wallies and went after birds' nests.
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
Sairey, why not go to Margate for a week, bring your constitution up with srimps, and come back to them loving arts as knows and wallies you, blooming?
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
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