tilly
/ˈtɪli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
name
A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
name
A surname transferred from the given name.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of tilly.
Example Sentences
- "Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies."
- "He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly."
- "A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot."
- "At each door he poured from the can into a pint measure and into the house-wife's jug, always with a tilly for the cat, whether there was a cat or not, sometimes splashing the step with milk to the annoyance of the housewife."
- "After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead."
- "One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene"."
Etymology
From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable