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Walter Mitty noun- a person who poses as a heroic ex-soldier AUSTRALIA
From Walter Mitty, the title character of James Thurber’s short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) and successful film of the same title starring Danny Kaye (1947). - A group of angry Vietnam veterans have established a website to expose the impostors and in 18 months have outed more than 25 fake soldiers known as “wannabes” or “Walter Mittys”. — Daily Telegraph, p. 6, 22 April 2002
- the female breast UK
Rhyming slang for TITTY. The short form “walter” can also be used. - I spend my whole life dreaming about Walters. — Bodmin Dark, Dirty Cockney Rhyming Slang, 2003
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