wallies
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of wallies
see wally ²
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.
From Project Gutenberg
There were no wallies under brollies on the touchline.
From The Guardian
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
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.
From The Guardian
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 Project Gutenberg
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