wally

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Wally "gotta love the name wally" Whitehurst (1964)

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  1. To cocker; indulge. [Provincial English]
  2. Same as waly. [Provin cial.]
  3. Wally fa' you! ill luck befall you! Wally fa' you, Willie, That ye could nae prove a man. Eppie Morrie (Child's Ballads, VI. 262).

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  • Wally "gotta love the name wally" Whitehurst (1964) —  MetsBlog.com
  • Even so, today for just a 100 eurs. wally vella-zarb (1 day, 20 hours ago) —  timesofmalta.com
  • This bloke, though, was a peely-wally late-forties (I'm being generous) Glaswegian, and it just looked utterly, utterly wrong. —  Bigmouth Strikes Again
  • To answer your question answer wally, 'One, one that works'.
  • Btw: no matter how Wally play, we have to trade one of those guys - for example in a package with Varejao for a quality Big, because even if wally finds his niche - at least one player will see almost no playing time in the current constellation. —  MVN
 

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