Wally definition

Wally

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WordNet

noun

(1) A silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid

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Proper noun

A diminutive of the male given names Walter and Wallace.

Quotations

2005 Joyce Carol Oates: Mother, Missing. Harper Perennial. page 108:

"'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.

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