wally
/ˈwɒli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace.
adj
Example Sentences
- ""'Mr. Szalla' is my eighty-two-year-old father, Nikki. Please call me 'Wally'." "Well. 'Wally'." I felt my face burn pleasantly. "Wally" was such a comfortable old-shoe kind of name."
- "'Don't be such a wally,' Ruby said. 'Felicity is way smarter than you could ever hope to be.'"
- "Mushy peas (£1.40) are ... mushy, and wallies (45p) – pickled gherkins to you – come sliced and prettily served in the shape of a flower."
- "[…] one of his eyes was wally, a condition common among the natives of the land. (Here the meaning 'pale' is intended, as indicated later in the text:) […] turned his one black eye on the kindly man […] (p. 183)"
- "Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈwɒli/
Usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Colloquial
- Obsolete
Inflected Forms
the Wally (canonical)
wallies (plural)