Gherkin vs Wally - What's the difference?
gherkin | wally |
A diminutive of the male given names Walter and Wallace.
* 2005 Joyce Carol Oates: Mother, Missing . Harper Perennial. page 108:
As nouns the difference between gherkin and wally
is that gherkin is a small cucumber, often pickled whole while wally is a fool.As a proper noun Wally is
a diminutive of the male given names Walter and Wallace.As a verb wally is
alternate pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value.wally
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "'Mr. Szalla' is my eighty-two-year-old father, Nikki. Please call me 'Wally'."
- "Well. 'Wally'."
- I felt my face burn pleasantly. "Wally " was such a comfortable old-shoe kind of name.