Phyllis

[fil-is]

noun

1. a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.

2. Also Phyliss. a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “green leaf.”

Example Sentences

He got his due in “A New Era” when he proved himself to be a skilled screenwriter and charmed Phyllis Baxter.

From Los Angeles Times

Just as politics in Washington moved left, the stirrings of a countermovement began: politicized Christian fundamentalism, the founding of right-wing think tanks, Phyllis Schlafly’s jihad against the Equal Rights Amendment, a property tax revolt in California and sputtering fury that gasoline would not remain at 30 cents a gallon for all eternity.

From Salon

“Above-ground pools have the same risk as any other pool,” said Dr. Phyllis Agran, a pediatrics professor emeritus at the UCI School of Medicine and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury, Violence and Prevention.

From Los Angeles Times

In the grand tradition of professional anti-feminists dating back to Phyllis Schlafly, Leavitt has found that the key to success is attacking the progressivism that allows her to have a career at all.

From Salon

After her original column had experienced the 1970s version of virality, she wrote a book and toured the country “lecturing” to “rapt audiences” about “the rewards of homemaking and housewifery,” enacting a less overtly political but equally ironic interpretation of the Phyllis Schlafly playbook.

From Salon