fally-aparty

English

Etymology

fall apart +‎ -y

Adjective

fally-aparty (comparative more fally-aparty, superlative most fally-aparty)

1. (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.