wally

plural wallies

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKslangA fool.

   'Don't be such a wally,' Ruby said. 'Felicity is way smarter than you could ever hope to be.'

   2014, Richard Newsome, The House of Puzzles, page 111

2. EssexLondoncolloquialA large pickled gherkin or cucumber.

   Mushy peas (£1.40) are ... mushy, and wallies (45p) – pickled gherkins to you – come sliced and prettily served in the shape of a flower.

   2003, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, page 215

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of whally

   […] 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)

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179

1. EssexcolloquialobsoleteAlternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value

   Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em.

   1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes

1. A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace.

   "'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.

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

1. hobbiesThe trophy awarded to winners of an NHRA national event (named after founder Wally Parks).