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Definition: Billy |
BillyNoun1. A policeman's club. 2. Male goat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Billy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a will", "a desire", "a helmet", "a protection". |
Date "billy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references) |
"Billy" is a common misspelling or typo for: can, canes, canoe, cent. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Roving frame. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Billy A policeman's staff, which is a little bill or billet. A pocket-handkerchief. "A blue billy" is a handkerchief with blue ground and white spots. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Aust. A name used in the Clermont district of Queensland for a bed ofquartzite that caps the coal measures. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Unknown. Definition: A cigar that has been hollowed out and filled with marijuana. Also known as a blunt. Context: This word is usually only used by those members of the social group who use marijuana. Social Source: New School Hip Hop listeners . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Billy Whizz is a comic strip in the long running UK comic theBeano. Billy Whizz, which started in 1964 (issue 1139, May 16th) as a replacement for The Country Cuzzins, was created by Malcolm Judge. He had previously drawn Colonel Crackpot's Circus, but Whizz was a far more interesting and enduring creation.Judge stopped drawing the strip in the late 1980s and has been replaced by various artists; primarily Vic Neill, but also Trevor Metcalfe and David Parkins (possibly!). The strip is currently drawn in a rather slapdash style by G. Hall. It is about a boy who can run extremely fast. He has a younger brother called Alfie Whizz who has no unusual powers.
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Synonyms: BillySynonyms: billy goat (n), billystick (n), he-goat (n), nightstick (n), stick (n), truncheon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy. |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
Receptacle | Bail, beaker, billy, canakin; catch basin, catch drain; chatti, lota, mussuk, schooner, spider, terrine, toby, urceus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Billy |
| English words defined with "billy": Slow lemur, slow loris. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "billy": Billycock Hats, Blue Billy ♦ Goat. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Billy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (billy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Billy, what are you doing (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Malcolm Johnson; Budd Schulberg) And that's that's all that Billy wanted (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman) You see Billy it's like this, you either smoke or you get smoked (White Men Can't Jump; writing credit: Ron Shelton.) Uncle John and Billy Bonney (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady) | |
Lyrics | A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) Billy, Billy don't you lose my number (Don't Lose My Number; performing artist: Phil collins) Billy left his home with a dollar in his pocket and a head full of dreams (YOUNG TURKS; performing artist: Rod Stewart) But I'm sure he's Bill or Billy or Mac or buddy ("All I Wanna Do"; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) The one and only Billy Shears ("Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"; performing artist: The Beatles) | |
Tongue Twisters | Big Billy, who had a big belly was also a big bully. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) Billy Liar (1973) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) Dirty Little Billy (1972) Billy Jack (1971) | |
Song Titles | Billy, Don't Be A Hero (performing artist: Paper Lace) Which Way You Goin' Billy (performing artist: The Poppy Family) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Paralympic athlete Lauren McDevitt Howard, bronze medal winner, 1996 Paralympic Games. From the book,"Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time" by Billy Howard and Maggie Holtzberg. Credit: CDC. |  | Billy as a cub being fed by Leo O. Colbert. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Billy making a mess - boy that stuff takes good. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Commander Glenn Moore on the left, radioman Simonson, and Billy Neokok. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Billy Wells' scallop dredgers tied up at the Seaford Scallop Company pier. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Goat farmer tends billy. Credit: USDA. |
 | Pictograph or rock art found at Billy Cross. Credit: Zanc. |  | Seaman 1st Class Billy Ikard (left) and Seaman 1st Class Barbara A. Patterson move a battery cart into position next to a Naval Air Transport Service R5D-1 (Bureau # 39170), circa mid-1945. Both WAVES are assigned to Naval Air Transport Squadron Four. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Billy Nattress. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Billy Purtell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Billy Goat" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "Here's a cutie I found at the petting zoo." | "Old school house" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Billy Creek Village, in Indiana has reburished old buildings for their 1800's themed village." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Billy Ocean sounding piece from the mid-1980's. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Billy Graham | Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. |
| God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. | |
| I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. | |
| A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. | |
| Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. | |
| A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. | |
Billy Wilder | Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
| I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. | |
| France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | According to PROVEA, 1 person was killed and 93 were injured during demonstrations from October 2000 through September, compared with 139 persons injured from October 1999 through September 2000. Authorities use firearms, tear gas, and billy clubs against demonstrators. (references) |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | Francis Billy Hilly was elected Prime Minister following the national elections in June, 1993, and headed the government until November 1994 when a shift in parliamentary loyalties brought Solomon Mamaloni back to power. (references) |
Human Rights | Honduras | At year's end, retired Captain Billy Joya Amendola was free on bail while awaiting further questioning. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Joe Viterelli | Well, the most funniest thing about doing the Analyze movies is that you never know what Billy Crystal is going to say. |
Nancy Sinatra | Written by Lee Hazelwood, arranged by Billy Strange. I personally felt they could have put out the track and they would have had a hit with that, because the track is what sells the song. |
Rush Limbaugh | Billy Cannaday, a Chesterfield County school Superintendent, who also happens to be black, decided to keep the doors open on MLK day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Billy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Billy" is used about 2,212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 98.37% | 2,176 | 4,027 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.63% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,212 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "billy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Billy | First name Female | 4,000 | 1,481 |
| Billy | First name Male | 248,000 | 73 |
| Billy | Last name | 1,000 | 8,671 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Billy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a will", "a desire", "a helmet", "a protection". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Billy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gwilherm | Male | Breton | William |
| Guillem | Male | Catalan | William |
| Vilem | Male | Czech | William |
| Willem | Male | Dutch | William |
| Bill | Male | English | William |
| Billie | Male, Female | English | William |
| Billy | Male | English | William |
| Wilkie | Male | English | William |
| Will | Male | English | William |
| Willa | Female | English | William |
| William | Male | English | N/A |
| Willie | Male, Female | English | William |
| Willis | Male | English | William |
| Willy | Male | English | William |
| Wilmot | Male | English | William |
| Wilson | Male | English | William |
| Vilchjo | Male | Esperanto | William |
| Vilhelmo | Male | Esperanto | William |
| Vilhelmi | Male | Finnish | William |
| Vilhelmiina | Female | Finnish | William |
| Viljami | Male | Finnish | William |
| Ville | Male | Finnish | William |
| Guillaume | Male | French | William |
| Wilhelm | Male | German | William |
| Wilhelmina | Female | German | William |
| Vilhelm | Male | Hungarian | William |
| Vili | Male | Hungarian | William |
| Vilmos | Male | Hungarian | William |
| Vilhjálmur | Male | Icelandic | William |
| Liam | Male | Irish | William |
| Uilliam | Male | Irish | William |
| Guglielmo | Male | Italian | William |
| Velvel | Male | Jewish | William |
| Vilhelms | Male | Latvian | William |
| Wiremu | Male | Maori | William |
| Guilherme | Male | Portuguese | William |
| Vilhelm | Male | Scandinavian | William |
| Uilleam | Male | Scottish | William |
| Viljem | Male | Slovene | William |
| Guillermo | Male | Spanish | William |
| Gwil | Male | Welsh | William |
| Gwilim | Male | Welsh | William |
| Gwillym | Male | Welsh | William |
| Gwilym | Male | Welsh | William |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "billy": bashful Billy ♦ billy buttons ♦ billy can ♦ billy club ♦ billy goat ♦ Billy Graham ♦ Billy Mitchell ♦ Billy Wilder ♦ hill billy ♦ slubbing billy ♦ sweet Billy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "billy": billy-boy, billy-button, billy-buttons, billy-can, billy-cock, billy-giraffe, billy-goat, billy-goat beard, billy-goats, billy-ho, Billy-le-grand, billy-o, billy-oh, Billy-tuckett-shaped. | |
Ending with "billy": silly-billy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
billy joel | 1,776 | billy charlotte good martin | 240 |
billy gilman | 1,213 | corgan billy | 233 |
billy the kid | 1,130 | billy bob heart | 227 |
billy graham | 1,109 | billy herrington | 203 |
billy idol | 912 | billy crawford | 199 |
billy joel lyrics | 511 | billy blank | 193 |
billy boyd | 498 | billy hayes | 189 |
billy ray cyrus | 487 | billy gaines | 183 |
billy madison | 375 | billy ocean | 179 |
billy zane | 357 | billy lane | 170 |
billy bob | 344 | billy holiday | 145 |
billy | 327 | billy jack | 144 |
billy bean | 305 | billy glide | 131 |
john boy billy | 300 | billy crudup | 129 |
billy brandt | 287 | billy connolly | 127 |
billy bob thornton | 280 | billy mitchell | 123 |
billy martin | 275 | billy currington | 121 |
billy bush | 263 | billy bragg | 120 |
billy bob texas | 256 | billy dean | 120 |
billy charlotte good | 255 | billy talent | 118 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "billy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Shkop Polici (baton, blackjack, truncheon), Shkop (bat, baton, cane, cudgel, pointer, pole, rod, roost, staff, stick, truncheon, walking stick), Kusi (mess tin). (various references) | |
Arabic | هراوة (bat, blackjack, bludgeon, club, cudgel, singlestick, stave, truncheon), غلاية (boiler, kettle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Туристическа Тенджерка, Тояга. (various references) | |
Chinese | 羝 (billy goat, ram). (various references) | |
Czech | Táborový Kotlík. (various references) | |
Danish | billy. (various references) | |
Dutch | bok (bench, easel, goat, he-goat, tressle, workbench), geitebok (he-goat). (various references) | |
Farsi | یار (Adjunct, Adjutant, Buddy, Chummy, Friend, Helper, Helpmate, Mistress, Pal, Paramour, Partner, Playmate, Sweetheart, Turtledove, Yokefellow), مخفف نامmailliw , همدم (Cahoot, Comate, Jo, Mate), چماق یاگرزراهزنان , نوعی کتری فلزی , چوبدستی (Rattan), رفیق (Associate, Boyfriend, Buddy, Comate, Comrade, Fere, Friend, Mate, Peer, Tenuous, Yokefellow), باطوم یاچوب قانون پاسبان , برادر (Brother). (various references) | |
Finnish | urosvuohi (billy goat, buck, he-goat, male goat), pukki (billy-goat, buck, horse, trestle). (various references) | |
French | billy, Matraque, Gamelle (billy can). (various references) | |
German | Billy, Kochgeschirr (billy can, canteen, mess tin). (various references) | |
Greek | προγνέστρια (flyer, flyer spinning frame, flyer throstle frame, rover), Βραστήρασ, Ρόπαλο (Mace). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vili, teaforraló, tábori csajka, tábori, suhi, rendőr fabotja, pénz (argent, bean, beans, boodle, brass, chink, chips, coinage, currency, dumps, green folding, green stuff, lolly, monetary, money, needful, pelf, posh, snide, store of money, tainted money, wampum), gumibot (baton, billy club, blackjack, cosh, nightstick, truncheon), furkósbot, Fütykösbot, fütykös (cudgel, dick, shillelagh), előfonógép (rover), dolcsi (skin). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tongkat polisi. (various references) | |
Italian | billy, Manganello (blackjack, cosh). (various references) | |
Manx | Illiam (Bill, William), curn tey (tea-caddy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | billy, bastão (bat, baton, cane, mace, mallet, rod, staff, wand), cassetete (baton). (various references) | |
Romanian | ied (billy goat, fawn, goatling, kid, yeanling), ţap (billy goat, buck, goat, he goat). (various references) | |
Romany | boozò (billy goat). (various references) | |
Russian | Дубинка, дубинка (billy club, blackjack, club, knobstick, lathee, nightstick, shillelagh, truncheon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | štap (cane, crook, goad, prod, rod, stick, truncheon, verge). (various references) | |
Spanish | billy, Porra (baton, blackthorn, club, cudgel, sandbag), Guillermo (bill). (various references) | |
Swedish | getabock (billy goat, he goat), bock (billy goat, buck, cross, duck, fault, goat, he-goat, howler, tick, trestle). (various references) | |
Turkish | Cop (baton, blackjack, bludgeon, cosh, nightstick, sap, truncheon). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Приятель, Кийок, Бляшаний Похідний Казанок, Цап. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dê đực (billy-goat), chỉ dùng trong thành ngữ $like billy-o (billy-ho, billy-o). (various references) | |
Welsh | bwch gafr (billy-goat, he-goat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "billy": billycan, billycans, billycock, billycocks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "billy": hillbilly, rockabilly. (additional references) | |
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"Billy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilic, Bille, billi, billyo, bily, Biollay, Blimy, Boilly, Brielly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "billy" (pronounced bi"lē) |
| 4 | b i" l ē | Billie. |
| 3 | -i" l ē | Chile, chili, chilly, dilly, filly, frilly, fusilli, gillie, Gilly, hilly, Lily, really, silly, villi, Willy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-l-y" | |
-1 letter: bill, illy, lily, yill. | |
-2 letters: ill, lib. | |
-3 letters: bi, by, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-l-y" | |
+1 letter: glibly. | |
+2 letters: balkily, balmily, billowy, blindly, bulkily, burlily, legibly, pliably, syllabi, waybill. | |
+3 letters: bellying, billycan, blearily, blithely, bloodily, blousily, blowsily, blowzily, blurrily, bridally, bullying, eligibly, fallibly, flabbily, flexibly, gullibly, labially, lability, limberly, playbill, publicly, reliably, ribaldly, sibyllic, syllabic, tribally, violably, waybills. | |
+4 letters: availably, bacillary, basically, beryllium, bestially, biaxially, bifilarly, biliously, billycans, billycock, bipedally, blazingly, blotchily, brittlely, bullishly, cubically, hillbilly, illegibly, indelibly, insolubly, ivorybill, liability, liberally, obliquely, plausibly, playbills, sibylline, sublimely, subtilely, syllabics, syllabify. | |
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