Usually means: Inept person, often making mistakes.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. wally: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wally: Merriam-Webster
  3. wally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wally: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wally: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wally, wally: Wordnik
  7. wally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wally, wally: Wiktionary
  9. wally: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wally: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wally: Dictionary.com
  12. The Wally, WALLY (commuter rail), WALLY, Wally (Dilbert), Wally (Dilbert character), Wally (Wallabies mascot), Wally (Wally album), Wally (album), Wally (band), Wally (disambiguation), Wally (given name), Wally: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Wally: Rhymezone
  14. wally: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wally: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wally: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wally, wally, wally: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wally: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Wally, Wally (70's Slang), wally: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wallying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool.
noun:  (colloquial, London and Essex) A large pickled gherkin or cucumber.
adjective:  (Of eyes) unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus.
verb:  (colloquial, obsolete, Essex) Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value

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