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Definition: DILLY |
DILLYNoun1. A kind of stagecoach. |
Date "DILLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dilly (plural, ~~~Dillies Dillies). Stage-coaches. They first began to run in 1779. An abbreviation of the French word diligence (q.v.). "Derby dilly." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | DILLY. (An abbreviation of the word DILIGENCE.) A public voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying three persons; the name is taken from the public stage vehicles in France and Flanders. The dillies first began to run in England about the year 17. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DILLY |
| Specialty definitions using "DILLY": dilly rider ♦ Petticoat and Gown. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Daffy Dilly (1948) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dilly Davis assists Becky Askelson in the produce section of Giant Foods in Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "DILLY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 47.37% of the time. "DILLY" is used about 19 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) | 47.37% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adverb (general) | 47.37% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DILLY" 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 |
| Dilly | Last name | 200 | 35,954 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "DILLY": dilly dally. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DILLY": Dilly-dally, dilly-dallying. | |
| 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 |
dilly | 59 | blue dilly dilly lavender | 3 |
dilly dally | 15 | bradman dilly tony | 3 |
dilly sextuplets | 13 | dilly texas | 3 |
bar dilly | 10 | deli dilly | 3 |
dilly bean | 9 | dilly trailer | 3 |
dilly downhill | 5 | dilly septuplets | 3 |
dilly erin | 5 | dilly boat trailer | 3 |
bar dairy dilly queen | 5 | dilly lily | 2 |
dilly whats | 4 | daily dilly | 2 |
dilly bean recipe | 4 | dilly dilly | 2 |
dilly uniform | 4 | dilly scrubs | 2 |
dilly lilly | 4 | chilly daisy dilly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DILLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dashnor (inamorato, leman, lover, paramour). (various references) | |
Arabic | تلكأ (dawdle, dilly dally, loiter, muck about, tarry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разтакавам се (dilly dally, loiter, lounge about, moon about), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo). (various references) | |
Czech | nimrat se (dilly dally, niggle), nevìdìt, co si poèít (dilly dally), mazat se (dilly dally). (various references) | |
Farsi | وساءطنقلیه مختلف ازقبیل ارابه . (various references) | |
French | lanterner (dilly dally). (various references) | |
German | trödeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, goof, loiter, niggle, to dally, to dawdle), tändeln (dally, dilly dally, flirt, flit, flutter, frolic, philander, toy, trifle), tändelei (dalliance, dallying, dilly-dallying, trifling), bummeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, gallivant, goof, hang around, idle, idle about, idle around, loiter, poke about, poke around, roam, saunter, slack, stroll, take it easy, to stroll, wander). (various references) | |
Greek | διστάζω (boggle, demur, dilly dally, doggle, falter, hang back, have second thoughts, hesitate, hesitate about, pause, scruple to, shilly-sally, shrink from, waver). (various references) | |
Hungarian | piszmog (diddle, dilly dally, Potter, to bugger about, to bugger around, to eff about, to eff around, to fart about, to fart around, to fiddle about, to hack around, to idle over sg, to jack around, to piffle, to potter about, to screw around), elgatyázza az idejét (dilly dally). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membuang waktu (dawdle, dilly dally). (various references) | |
Italian | tentennare (boggle, dilly dally, hesitate, pussyfoot, stagger, swing, totter, waver). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 循姑息 (dilly-dallying and temporizing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | い"じゅ""そく (dilly-dallying and temporizing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vadiar (dilly-dally, drone, fiddle, laze, loaf, maroon, mike, roam, wander). (various references) | |
Romanian | tãia frunzã la câini (dilly dally, drone), pierde vremea cu fleacuri (dilly dally), oscila (dally, dilly dally, dither, hesitate, librate, oscillate, rock, swing, vacillate, vibrate, waver), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), codi (dilly dally, hesitate, vacillate, waver). (various references) | |
Russian | колебаться (be torn between, dilly dally, dither, fluctuate, fluctuating, go seesaw, hand back, hang in the balance, hesitate, hover, nutate, oscillate, oscillated, pendulate, seesaw, shilly shally, shuttling, stumble at, swing, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wavered, whiffle, whiffled). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolebati se (dilly dally, dillydally, fluctuate, pause, vacillate, waver). (various references) | |
Spanish | descansar sin trabajo (dilly dally), vacilar a (Bicker, dilly dally, oscillate), titubear (Dicker, dilly dally, falter, hesitate, nutate, shilly shally, stagger, stammer, waver), perder el tiempo (bugger about, bugger around, dally, dawdle, dilly dally, fool around, idle away, loiter, lose one's time, mess around, muck about, piddle, wait about, wait around, waste time), pasar el tiempo en vano (dilly dally), olvidar de la vida (dilly dally), hacer nada (dilly dally). (various references) | |
Swedish | vela (dilly dally, dilly-dally, dither, shilly shally), vackla (boggle, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, haver, hitch, hover, oscillate, pendulate, shilly shally, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, vacillate, waver, wobble), hatta (dilly dally, shillyshally). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียเวลาในการตั"สินใจ (dilly-dally). (various references) | |
Turkish | vakit öldürmek (diddle, dilly dally, fiddle away, frig, frivol, hang out, horse around, trifle with), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time), işi ağırdan almak (dilly dally). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle), баритися (back pedal, balance, delay, dilly dally, linger, procrastinate, stay). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DILLY": dillydallied, dillydallies, dillydally, dillydallying. (additional references) | |
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"DILLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dailley, dalby, dallly, dallyo, daly, deally, delli, delly, Dielli, diely, Dihli, dil, dilb, dilc, dilla, dilli, Dillys, dilq, Dily, dilz, Dinlle, dioly, Djilali, Dlimy, dolley, dply, Dyli, dylle, Illy, killy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DILLY" (pronounced di"lē) |
| 3 | -i" l ē | Billie, Billy, Chile, chili, chilly, filly, frilly, fusilli, gillie, Gilly, hilly, Lily, really, silly, villi, Willy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: idyll. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-l-y" | |
-1 letter: dill, idly, idyl, illy, lily, yill. | |
-2 letters: ill, lid, yid. | |
-3 letters: id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-l-y" | |
+1 letter: idylls, mildly, wildly. | |
+2 letters: blindly, childly, daylily, fluidly, gelidly, godlily, ideally, idyllic, lairdly, lividly, lucidly, luridly, psyllid, solidly, tidally, validly. | |
+3 letters: bloodily, bridally, cloudily, dallying, disloyal, dismally, distally, docilely, dollying, floridly, idyllist, ladylike, limpidly, liquidly, medially, pallidly, phylloid, placidly, psyllids, radially, ribaldly, stolidly, veiledly, willyard. | |
+4 letters: bipedally, cordially, cycloidal, darlingly, daylilies, decimally, digitally, direfully, diurnally, dollishly, doltishly, dullishly, dutifully, flaccidly, fluidally, idyllists, indelibly, invalidly, languidly, limitedly, lyophiled, medically, mindfully, oedipally, phyllodia, phylloids, playfield, polyploid, radically, soldierly, squalidly, stiltedly, yodelling. | |
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