“Oh walie walie walie a jist meant tae cut aff yir tail, sairie moose. ”
Translate:
waly, walie: an exclamation of dismay, distress.
“Oh how awfully awfully distressing! I just meant to cut off your tail, sorry mouse.”
![[walie spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/wallieph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: walie with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
Wallies are false teeth & Wally-Dugs are China dog ornaments. I understand it goes back to a time when all things made of China or porcelain (including false teeth) were ‘wally’.
Quite right – fixed the spelling. False teeth here: stooryduster.co.uk/wallies/