dilly
noun
something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual, etc..
dillies
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pluralof dilly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He’s got options either side, but dillies and dallies.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2015
"He dillies until he can't dilly any longer; then he dallies," snapped Manhattan Presbyterian Clergyman Charles Leber.
From Time Magazine Archive
As usual, they were dillies, a superbly executed potpourri inspired by Bali's antic muse.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is redolent with some rare effluvium; pomatum-laden winds breathe across the daffadown dillies from the warm chambers of the south.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
Whilst we were at our last camp, Charley met a long file of native women returning, with their dillies and baskets full of shell fish, to the range; near which, very probably, fresh water existed.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
