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English
Etymology
From plastic + -y. Compare spazzy from spastic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
plazzy (not comparable) (Liverpool, slang)
- Synonym of plastic (“made of plastic”)
1987, Arthur Perkins, Trash, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 22:‘Nar, listen, ’e foun’ these postcards in a plazzy bag. Two ’undred a’ fifteen pee each from this shop in town. […]
- Synonym of plastic (“fake”)
1998, Kevin Sampson, Awaydays, London: Vintage, published 1999, →ISBN, pages 33–34:Fucken plazzy gangsters, the lot of them. Deal a bit of weed and they think they’re the fucken boys.
Noun
plazzy (plural plazzies)
- (Liverpool, slang) A plastic (fake) Scouser; a person from the area around Liverpool but not the city itself, especially one who claims to be Scouse.
- Synonyms: woolly back, wool
2008 September 4, Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North, Random House, →ISBN, page 62:Scousers hate 'plazzies' because they aren't real Scousers but cheap wannabes with no style.