wally

IPA/ˈwɒli/
KK[wˈɔli]IPA/ˈwɑːli/

wally — 名詞

  • wallysingular
  • walliesplural

1. someone who does silly things or seems to have no common sense.

1.名詞
釋義

笨蛋；傻瓜

做蠢事或顯得缺乏常識的人

someone who does silly things or seems to have no common sense.

例句

Karim felt like a complete wally when he walked into the glass door.

Karim 一頭撞上玻璃門時，覺得自己簡直是個大笨蛋。

feel like a wally: feel foolish after a mistake

Only a wally would leave the front door open all night.

只有笨蛋才會讓前門整晚開著。

Only a wally would + verb: criticising a foolish act

常見搭配
  • feel like a wally
  • call someone a wally
同義詞
  • fool

    the general word for a person who acts without good sense

  • idiot

    suggests the person is very unintelligent, not only acting silly once

  • twit

    someone who acts in an annoying, silly way

用法筆記

Countable and used only of people; the plural is 'wallies'. A typical frame is feel like / look like a wally, describing how someone seems after a silly mistake.

常見錯誤

Don't be so wally.
Don't be such a wally.
wally is a noun, so it needs 'such a' rather than 'so', which goes before adjectives.

常見搭配

常用片語

  • a complete wally
  • a right wally