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Wally, short for Walburga, is a girl with some heroic attributes. The story is based on an episode in the life of Tyrolean painter Anna Stainer-Knittel , whom von Hillern met. She got her epithet "Geier" (vulture, the local name for eagle) from having gutted a bearded vulture 's nest going down a rope; this dangerous task, aimed at protecting ...
Wally B., a character in the 1984 short film The Adventures of André & Wally B. Wally B. Feed, cartographer from the Monkey Island game series; Wally the Wizard, a Magician child from Marvel Comics. Wally/Wolliriki, a character in Kikoriki, also known as GoGoRiki (United States). Title character of opera La Wally (female; short for Walburga)
The "kumare" on her character's name is a Filipino word used on calling close female friends, and the exact equivalent of the Spanish/Portuguese word "amiga". Gamboa is actually Tito Sotto's wife in real-life. Don Eduardo Rockefeller; Portrayed by: Eddie Garcia Don Eduardo is Lola Babah's brother and also Alden's grandfather.
Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). [1] La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben?
In British English 'wally' is a colloquial way to describe someone stupid or inept ('he looked a complete wally'). It is also a common, folksy abbreviation of male names such as Walter and Wallace, so the combination with female 'La' in the name of an opera inevitably looks comical - as if the opera were called 'La Fred' or 'La Mike'.
Güey (Spanish pronunciation:; also spelled guey, wey or we) is a word in colloquial Mexican Spanish that is commonly used to refer to any person without using their name. . Though typically (and originally) applied only to males, it can also be used for females (although when using slang, women would more commonly refer to another woman as "chava" [young woman] or "vieja" [old lady])
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
Wally is a British English expression referring to a "silly or inept person", [1] which later developed into an umbrella term for "vulnerable individuals". [ 2 ] It is thought to have originated at a pop festival in the late 1960s or early 1970s; many sources suggest the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival .