piccadilly
/pɪkəˈdɪli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus.
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The surrounding area.
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Manchester Piccadilly station, the main railway station in Manchester.
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The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.
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Example Sentences
- "The Inn that I speak of is about the Middle of Piccadilly upon the left hand."
- "Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band - If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your mediaeval hand."
- "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square - It's a long, long way to Tipperary But my heart's right there."
- "Valentine Dawes, a Quaker, living in Aier-street in the Piccadilly, being for many years troubled with the Falling-Sickness, was perfectly cured; and thereupon presently became a Roman Catholick."
- "Why Piccadilly? The Piccadilly Line was originally the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) which was shortened to Piccadilly in practice. Running under the main road between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly made sense and was also the most well-known location in the original company name."
Etymology
From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor, Robert Baker, who specialized in a type of lace collar called a piccadill, possibly from conjectured Spanish *picadillo, from picado (“punctured, pierced”); compare 17th century Spanish picadura (“a similar lace collar”). Piccadilly attested as the London street name from 1695^(see quote); previously the main portion of the street (west of Sackville Street) was called Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza. Piccadilly attested of the location from 1663^(see quote), Peccadillo a.1641, Pecadilly Hall a.1640ⁱᵇⁱᵈ, Pickadilly Hall 1623. All other uses appear to be derived from the London location or street name.
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Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɪkəˈdɪli/