Wally vs Joey - What's the difference?

As proper nouns the difference between wally and joey

is that wally is a diminutive of the male given names Walter and Wallace while Joey is a diminutive of the male given name Joe or Joseph.

is that wally is a fool while joey is the immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.

is alternate pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value.

(en proper noun)

A diminutive of the male given names Walter and Wallace.

* 2005 Joyce Carol Oates: Mother, Missing . Harper Perennial. page 108:

"'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.

(en noun)

The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.

The shorter word whose letters can be found within a kangaroo word.

* 1998 , Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, The Word Circus (page 129)

Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys .

* 2005 , Anu Garg, Another Word a Day (page 132)

Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey .