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• s  (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals

• It may be easy to mock Couric's palsy-walsy tone and Anchorman references, but at least she's trying to get new viewers' attention.
• Yet in the next days, Dirksen described his palsy-walsy relationship with President Kennedy, both personally and on international problems: "He has been my friend for 14 years.
• Brooding over the tomb of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, in Gloucester's handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert.

• chummy
• matey
• pally

Quotes

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• Willie Penrose in Irish Times
  Speaking in the presence of Siptu president Jack O'Connor, Mr Penrose said Labour expected trade unionists "to come out and support us and not be behind the door, and forget about this palsy-walsy act with Bertie Ahern".
• Marvin Miller in New York Times
  I always got along, but that didn't mean being palsy-walsy,Miller said. "There were no fistfights, but this is an adversarial function, two opposing things. It doesn't mean you're enemies, but it certainly means you're not friends. I told...