α. 1900s– plazie, 1900s– plazy, 1900s– plazzie, 1900s– plazzy.
β. 1900s– plassey, 1900s– plassie, 1900s– plassy.
plazzyadj.n.
/ˈplazi/, U.S. /ˈplæzi/ British colloquial.
A. adj.
1. Plastic. Frequently in plazzy bag.
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1975 A. Bleasdale Scully iv. 84 Went down the Gym with a plassy ball.
1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) at Placky, Placky, plaggy. Plastic, esp. in plaggy bag... A further var. is plazzy.
1993 Re: Banana Splits in rec.arts.tv.uk (Usenet newsgroup) 4 May Plassy models of the Splits themselves. This was one plassy model I actually bothered to paint!
1997 Observer (Nexis) 25 May (Review section) 7 He may well resemble the customer from hell that anorak! those plazzie bags!
2004 G. Johnson Powder Wars (2005) xi. 128 One of them had a plazzy bag with £30,000 in it stashed inside his zipped-up tracky top.
2009 Daily Star (Nexis) 18 Apr. 42 How funny are them little plazzy flags chelsea fans get given to try an create an atmosphere?
2. regional (Liverpool). derogatory. Fake, phoney, imitation; second-rate (see plastic adj. 7b). Designating a person who aspires to belong to a particular group, but lacks authenticity or acceptance; would-be. Esp. in plazzy scouser, a person whose credentials as a Liverpudlian are regarded sceptically or mockingly; (also spec.) a person from the Wirral Peninsula.
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1997 Re: Take Tip from Me in uk.media.tv.brookside (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Nov. Ya ‘plassey’ ganster no marks buy the real thing.
2011 L. Wilson Blackberry Trout Face ii. 25 Jakey. I'd have smacked his head in. Kerrie. If yer weren't out bein some plazzy Rambo yer mean?
2012 Daily Star (Nexis) 13 Mar. 44 (text message) I was at euston station goin to the final it was full of plazzy manure [sc. Manchester United] fans from london goin to norwich with there jellied eels true mancs haha.
2016 @1BearTruth 23 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) lmfao bet your a plazzy scouser! Where you from lad? Birkenhead or the Wirral..?
B. n.
regional (Liverpool). derogatory. A person whose credentials as a Liverpudlian are regarded sceptically or mockingly. Also spec.: a person from the Wirral Peninsula. More generally: a person who aspires to belong to a particular group, but lacks authenticity or acceptance; a wannabe.
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1994 Re: Why Geordie, why Mackem? in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Nov. While we're on the subject of regional names a Scouse lass told me that Merseysiders born south of the Mersey are not scousers, but plassies.
1998 J. Moores Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 2039. 56 Mike: So you plazzies then? Jason: Nah... My mum's from over there—but my old fella's from Garston.
2007 S. Maconie Pies & Prejudice (2008) 61 ‘Plazzie’ has been a term of abuse among Liverpudlians since the sixties, when local movers and shakers like Alan Williams (the manager who gave away the Beatles..) used it to describe those people who talked up their Scouseness..but were off to Surrey at the first chance they got.
2008 @ChrissMari 2 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I'm by myself most weekends watching [Manchester] City vs Sunderland while all the plazzys watch Utd.
2014 Liverpool Echo (National ed.) (Nexis) 29 June 24 You see a soaked young lad in a T-shirt being offered an umbrella. He looks offended..—because he doesn't want to be mistaken for a ‘soft plazzy’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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