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palsy-walsy

[ pal-zee-wal-zee ]

adjective

Slang.
  1. 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

/ ˈæɪˌæɪ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    excessively friendly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ 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.”

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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.”

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