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whack the illy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English

Syllables
whack- the il-ly
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To carry on small-time confidence tricks, i.e. the activity of an illywhacker.

Australian usage; Colloquial; Obsolete

Etymology

Presumed (but not proven) to be a back-formation from illywhacker.

Usage

Inflected Forms

whacks the illy (present, singular) whacking the illy (participle, present) whacked the illy (participle, past) whacked the illy (past)

Questions

What does whack the illy mean?
To carry on small-time confidence tricks, i.e. the activity of an illywhacker.
Where does whack the illy come from?
Presumed (but not proven) to be a back-formation from illywhacker.

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