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wally; wallie; wolly
noun- an unfashionable individual; someone who is innocent, or foolish; a fool UK, 1969
Possibly originates in the name Wally, however Scottish dialect wally-draigle (a feeble, ill-grown person) may well have had an influence. - He thinks a lot of recent skin [skinhead] converts [to the National Front Party] are “just a bunch of wallies who’ve learnt how to chant Sieg Heil at gigs”. — New Society, 26 June 1980
- It’s like Leonardo da Vinci–he had the idea, grand design and then he had all those wallies, apprentices[.] — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 10, 1984
- [A] wally that came last in downhill skiing[.] — David Robb, The Nineties, p. 44, 1999
- Come on, you fucking wally. — John King, Human Punk, p. 10, 2000
- “Were the Sex Pistols political?” I asked John Lydon on a chat show. “Of course not,” he insisted. “That was Malcolm [McLaren]. We were never anarchists–we were just wallies.” — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 248, 2001
- in CID slang, a uniformed police officer, especially a constable; more generally, a trainee or an incompetent police officer UK
“Woolly” is also recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1965. - — G.F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard, 1970
- — The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, 1999
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