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wallies

British  
/ 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

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

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