"wally" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Richard Newsome, The House of Puzzles, page 111:",
          "text": "'Don't be such a wally,' Ruby said. 'Felicity is way smarter than you could ever hope to be.'",
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        "A fool."
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        "(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool."
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          "ref": "2003, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, page 215:",
          "text": "Mushy peas (£1.40) are ... mushy, and wallies (45p) – pickled gherkins to you – come sliced and prettily served in the shape of a flower.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A large pickled gherkin or cucumber."
      ],
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          "pickled"
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          "gherkin",
          "gherkin"
        ],
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          "cucumber",
          "cucumber"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, London and Essex) A large pickled gherkin or cucumber."
      ],
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        "Essex",
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  "word": "wally"
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:",
          "text": "[…] one of his eyes was wally, a condition common among the natives of the land. (Here the first meaning is intended, as indicated later in the text:) […] turned his one black eye on the kindly man […] (p. 183)",
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          "ref": "2007, www.urbandictionary.com, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wally+eye&defid=2671760",
          "text": "You are freaking me out with your wally eye. One of your eyes is doing its own thing."
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        "unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus."
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        "(Of eyes) unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "peely-wally"
        },
        {
          "word": "walleye"
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          "ref": "1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes:",
          "text": "Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em.",
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        "Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value"
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        "(colloquial, obsolete, Essex) Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value"
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        "A fool."
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        "(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool."
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:",
          "text": "[…] one of his eyes was wally, a condition common among the natives of the land. (Here the first meaning is intended, as indicated later in the text:) […] turned his one black eye on the kindly man […] (p. 183)",
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          "text": "You are freaking me out with your wally eye. One of your eyes is doing its own thing."
        }
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        "unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus."
      ],
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          "misaligned"
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          "strabismus",
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        "(Of eyes) unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus."
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