wally

name

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.”

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

noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)A fool.

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

2. (Essex, London, colloquial)A 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.”

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative 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)”

verb

1. (Essex, colloquial, obsolete)Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value

   “Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em.”