Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

testilie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: testilie
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To commit perjury (as a police officer).

American usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"In Manhattan, grand jury prosecutors are urged to interview police officers separately if there is any possibility they may be fabricating evidence or about to testilie."
"Higher rank officers in New York advocated that those officers who testilied should not be prosecuted because testilying was a police tradition."

Etymology

Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared a few years earlier and is more common.

Usage

American usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

testilies (present, singular) testilying (participle, present) testilied (participle, past) testilied (past)

Questions

What does testilie mean?: To commit perjury (as a police officer).
Where does testilie come from?: Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared a few years earlier and is more common.

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