fally-aparty
adjEtymology From fall apart + -y.
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Informal Tending to fall apart.
- 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:
- 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:
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- […] 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: