fally-aparty
English
editEtymology
editFrom fall apart + -y.
Adjective
editfally-aparty (comparative more fally-aparty, superlative most fally-aparty)
- (informal) Tending to fall apart.
- 2015, Kerry Wilkinson, Down Among the Dead Men, page 315:
- 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.'
- 2016, Peta Mathias, Burnt Barley, unnumbered page:
- 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.
- 2019, Stephen Kozeniewski, Braineater Jones, 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.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fally-aparty.