Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in a close, friendly relationship.
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- adjective slang Very
friendly , especially in anexcessive orartificial way.
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- adjective (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Since two of the judges were palsy-walsy with Robert Hanssen, there may be more truth to that than you realise.
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Since two of the judges were palsy-walsy with Robert Hanssen, there may be more truth to that than you realise.
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Or do you think it is ok for a presidential candidate to be palsy-walsy with an ex-felon that now happens to have a talk show, and was very, very deeply involved in a secret White House effort to subvert the U.S. Constitution?
Voter tells McCain his temper is 'something of concern' 2008
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"I don't want to get all palsy-walsy with them."
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I can forgive his 9/11 conservatism but I can't forget his palsy-walsy ways with the slugging thug on Fox.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Mamet, Miller, And The Ole Hitcheroo Switcheroo 2008
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But the man once dubbed "Obsequio" does still bristle over criticism of his palsy-walsy interviewing style.
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Teachers, many of whom are young and idealistic and keen to be palsy-walsy with children and play the role of surrogate parent, are paradoxically often the most stalwart champions of the catastrophically counter-productive dogmas regarding classroom arrangement and necessarily knowledge-free lessons in the UK's schools.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Michael Kinsley, writing in "The Washington Post" last March said, "CNN's Lou Dobbs, formerly a mild-mannered news anchor, noted for his palsy-walsy interviews with corporate CEOs has turned into a raving popular xenophobe."
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I spent 30 years fighting the Conservatives at grass-roots level so I am certainly not going to to be 'palsy-walsy' with them.
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George Bush, the elder, was palsy-walsy with Saudi Arabia, pandering for oil, cutting taxes on the wealthy a la Reagan's fuzzy trickle down economics, championing ousourcing of American jobs, increasing the national debt, borrowing to balance the budget.
yarb commented on the word palsy-walsy
He hoped that now, at last, they would get to be palsy-walsy, perhaps even do some chicken chasing together.
- William Steig, The Toy Brother
September 14, 2008