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
At the start of the show, roadies�rechristened "wallies" for the occasion�start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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