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palsy-walsy
[ pal-zee-wal-zee ]
adjective
Slang.
- friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way:
The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.
palsy-walsy
/ ˈ±èæ±ô³úɪˌ·Éæ±ô³úɪ /
adjective
- informal.excessively friendly
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of palsy-walsy1
First recorded in 1930–35; rhyming compound based on palsy 2
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In the “Valley People†rundown, a notice laments that the “smugly oppressive dominance†of the Anderson Valley School Board by certain “palsy-walsy†potentates has made it “a kind of self-perpetuating monument to rural nepotism.â€
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Then they had to go ruin it all with that whole glasnost thing, the demolition of the Berlin Wall, and Gorbachev and Reagan getting all palsy-walsy.
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Dandy Don, for the record, assures me that he and Humble Howard are palsy-walsy.â€
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