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wallies

/ ˈwælɪz /

plural noun

  1. dialect,  false teeth; dentures

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wallies1

see wally ²
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Example Sentences

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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.

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There were no wallies under brollies on the touchline.

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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.

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They took it down again when they realised that it made them look like total wallies, breaking up picnics and arresting people for microscopic particles of hash.

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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?

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