palsy-walsyn.adj.

1932 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 28 Oct. 10/4 And while the gray matter plays around with basketball it might not be amiss to slip in a few lines on our palsy-walsy, Wally Mayers.

1937 ‘J. Curtis’ There ain't no Justice xxvi. 287 What are you having, palsy-walsy?

1941 H. Smith Gang's All Here 266 There was nothing to do but I must go along with them. I even went into SRO with them. Talk about palsy-walsies!

1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 25 ‘Well, well, if it's not my old palsie-walsie Bert,’ one of the detectives said.

1966 ‘W. Haggard’ Power House x. 111 There was nothing quite so expendable as dear old palsy-walsies who had by now outgrown their usefulness.

1993 F. Cooper I believe in Angels (BNC) 11 ‘For God's sake!’ shrilled Jan and her palsy-walsy.

1933 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 24 Feb. 11/2 William Gargan, who buttled In ‘Animal Kingdom’, says his own butler was becoming quite palsy-walsy.

1937 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 22 Apr. 14/1 Charley Grimm is gay, palsy-walsy with his players.

1940 C. Porter Compl. Lyrics (1983) 207/3 America's palsy-walsy, England's a trifle smug, While England does the stately waltz, America cuts a rug.

1959 ‘J. R. Macdonald’ Galton Case (1960) xviii. 149 Him and Pete were palsy-walsy.

1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xiii. 101 What do you call it when a couple of nations start off by being all palsy walsy and then begin calling each other ticks and bounders?

1974 P. G. Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen vii. 56 Being a Communist, he was probably on palsy-walsy terms with half the big shots at the Kremlin.

1998 I. Welsh Filth 293 What made Ray Lennox want to be all palsy-walsy and one-of-the-boys all of a sudden?

1942 Daily Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa) 6 May 6/4 He does not inspire the close, hearty, poker-playing, whisky-drinking, palsy-walsiness that Garner did.

1950 Dixon (Illinois) Evening Tel. 8 June 4/3 Distaff side palsy-walsiness in Hollywood is limited to a strained ‘Hello dahlling’ in night club powder rooms.

1999 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 16 July 3 q Tableside service follows through with low-key amiability that never crosses the dreaded line into palsy-walsiness.