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wally
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
term of admiration, Scottish, early 16c., of unknown origin. As a masc. proper name, a diminutive of Walter, and this might be the source of the teen slang term "unfashionable person" (1969).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en British slang) a fool 2 (label en colloquial London and Essex) a pickled large gherkin or cucumber vb. (label en colloquial obsolete Essex) alternate pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value
Wikipedia
WALLY (the Washtenaw– Livingston Rail Line) is a proposed commuter rail service which would link the Michigan cities of Ann Arbor and Howell.
Wally is a fictional character from the Dilbert comic strip. He is characterized as an employee so deeply jaded that instead of doing any real work, he spends all his time and effort successfully gaming the system.
Wally, led by the singer-songwriter Roy Webber, was an English progressive rock band, which originated in Harrogate, Yorkshire, in the early 1970s.
Wally is the eponymous first album by the band Wally. While the band fitted broadly into the Progressive rock category, there was more than a hint of country / rock about the album, especially with Paul Middleton's steel guitar. The album is very much of its time, and shows influences of The Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash and the like. Wally, produced by Bob Harris and Rick Wakeman was not a huge commercial success, but has gained and maintained a loyal following, to the extent that the album has recently been re-released on CD.
Roy Webber has returned to music after many years involved in his original profession of graphics, and recorded a new album with Will Jackson in 2006.
The track "The Martyr" was released as a single in 1975.
Wally is the name of the official mascot of the Australian rugby union team - the Wallabies. As his name implies, Wally is a Wallaby. The stuffed version of the mascot is carried with the Wallabies on overseas tours to Europe. It then becomes the duty of the youngest member of the touring party to protect the mascot from pranks by older players to hide and sabotage it. It is considered an embarressment to the protector if Wally is not safely guarded. For example, when Berrick Barnes was forced to protect Wally during the 2007 World Cup in France he had to stitch it up several times and perform a search of every member's hotel room to retrieve it - despite the help of Lote Tuqiri. As the protector is forced to hold Wally at all times it becomes a source of entertainment for senior players when the team is out socialising. During the 2008 tour it became a long-running joke among the players that the mascot could be used by 18-year-old James O'Connor to break the ice with young ladies.
In May 2007 a Welsh rugby fan was ejected from a stadium in Sydney during a match for attempting to dance with the life size version of Wally.
Wally is a British English expression referring to a "silly or inept person", which later developed into an umbrella term for "vulnerable individuals".
According to Oxford Dictionaries Online, it possibly originated at a pop festival in the 1960s when, on hearing the name being announced many times over a loudspeaker, the crowd took it up as a chant.
The cry was picked up by others and led to random shout of "Wally" being heard at rock concerts all over Britain.
In 1974 a group of new age travelers were encamped near Stonehenge, to help hinder the process of eviction by the landowners they all gave their name as Wally of Wessex, "Wally being a conveniently anonymous umbrella for vulnerable individuals".
Wally is a given name, and a nickname for Wallace and Walter. Notable people with this given name include:
- Wally Broecker (born 1931 Wallace Smith Broecker), American geochemist
- Wally Bruner (1931–1997), American journalist and game show host
- Wally Butts (1905–1973), American former football coach
- Wally Chambers (born 1951 Wallace Hashim Chambers), American football player
- Wally Cox (1924–1973), American comedian and actor
- Wally Dallenbach, Jr. (born 1963), American racecar driver
- Wally Dallenbach Sr. (born 1936), American racecar driver
- Wally Downes (born 1961 Walter John Downes), English association footballer and coach
- Wally George (1931–2003 George Walter Pearch), American commentator
- Wally Green (born 1918 Walter Green), English motocycle speedway rider
- Wally Hayward (1908–2006 Wallace Henry Hayward), South African ultra distance runner
- Wally Kurth (born 1958), American daytime soap opera actor
- Wally Lewis (born 1959 Walter James Lewis) Australian rugby league footballer
- Wally Moon (born 1930 Wallace Wade Moon) American baseball player
- Wally Parks (1913–2007 Wallace Gordon Parks), one of the founders of the National Hot Rod Association
- Wally Phillips (1925–2008 Walter Phillips), former United States radio personality
- Wally Price (born 1925), Australian rules footballer
- Wally Prigg (1908–1980), Australian rugby league footballer
- Wally Schirra (1923–2007 Walter Marty Schirra, Jr.), American astronaut
- Wally Szczerbiak (born 1977 Walter Robert Szczerbiak), retired National Basketball Association player
- Wally Wingert (born 1961 Wallace E. Wingert), American voice actor
Usage examples of "wally".
Fish Wally looked off into the cryptstared a moment at the ranting monologuist, then fixed his gaze on Stilton and sighed.
While Wally was putting these things in the vault I told George Propper to lock Furman up.
Wally Wiglet being part of a clever plan, sarge, on account of him not being much of a thinker, sir.
I knew those seven faces as well as an earlier generation of space nuts had known the faces of Al Shepard, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter.
On another wall was a color photograph of Israel taken by the American astronaut, Wally Schirra, from an Apollo spacecraft.
Come on, are you man enough or are you just a weak peely wally shilpit slaister of a man?
The Tranny Man has to climb the hill into the hot steep thick of it, to find the man Wally Blum says will maybe work this weekend and pull the Tucson transmission.
The map that Wally Blum scribbled leads the Tranny Man and his pet up narrow cobblestone thoroughfares where trucks lurch loud between chuckholes.
Wally shows up with two yellowtail and the Tranny Man accepts their invitation for supper.
Duke Unrig never arranged contacts at the places where Wally usually went.
Wally Whistler, absentmindedly fumbling with the catch on the spring-leaf table.
Bill Sorensen and Wally Albers, who were away at the moment, on a cruise to Jamaica with their wives.
Somehow he got to Wally and gave him a thousand bucks, more or less, to vote acquittal.
Wally also dropped his bombs on the industrial area of Myingyan, but heavy clouds prevented adequate observation of the destruction.
Rover and Wally drove them to the empty house that backed on to the house where the Leyland Clydesdale was parked.