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fally-aparty en · ADJ

Etymology

From fall apart + -y.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Tending to fall apart.
    • As I had the pleasure of eating potatoes almost every day for three months in Ireland I came to realise that the only potato they like is a flour ball — sweet, fluffy and fally-aparty, cooked in the skin, peeled at the table and helped down with a forkful of butter. 2016, Peta Mathias, Burnt Barley, unnumbered page:
    • […] He's keeping money flowing in, but really what he wants is some half-cocked mechanical solution to your kind's fally-aparty problems.” 2019, Stephen Kozeniewski, Braineater Jones, unnumbered page:
    • Lucy scowled at him, jabbing a fork in his direction and trying not to smile. 'It's your fault – my cakes aren't usually so . . . fally-aparty.' 2015, Kerry Wilkinson, Down Among the Dead Men, page 315:

Forms

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most fally-aparty Degree=Sup lexicographic
more fally-aparty Degree=Cmp lexicographic