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   palsy-walsy

   /ˌpalzɪˈwalzi/

   adjective

   • 1. very friendly or intimate: informal "he tried to get palsy-walsy with Henry, and that was a big mistake"

   Word Origin 1930s (as a noun in the sense ‘friend’): from the noun pal + -sy, by reduplication.

   Scrabble Points: 21

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