filly

[ fil-ee ]

/ ˈfɪl i /

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noun, plural fil·lies.

a young female horse.

Informal. a girl or young woman.

Nearby words

fillip, fillipeen, fillister, fillister head, fillmore, filly, fillér, film, film badge, film clip, film colour

Origin of filly

1400–50; late Middle English fyly < Old Norse fyla female foal

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Examples from the Web for filly

But on May 30, Jackson announced he would not enter his filly, claiming she “deserves a well-earned vacation.”
Can These Two Horses Save Racing?|Sally Denton|June 4, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Neil had brought the filly with him, and Lincoln hitched right up and took him to the station.
Kilmeny of the Orchard|Lucy Maud Montgomery
He ate scarcely any dinner and roved restlessly about until it was time to take the filly to the paddock.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, October, 1908|Various
I hardly heard him; I was already putting the filly at it for the second time.
All on the Irish Shore|E. Somerville and Martin Ross

With the filly she listened, and then smiled as she heard the sound of a horse's feet coming along the track through the scrub.
Tom Gerrard|Louis Becke
And he, who could thus calmly calculate so trifling a loss, was £50,000 poorer by his filly's failure to win the Plate!
Love Romances of the Aristocracy|Thornton Hall

British Dictionary definitions for filly

filly

/ (ˈfɪlɪ) /

noun plural -lies

a female horse or pony under the age of four

informal, rare a spirited girl or young woman

Word Origin for filly

C15: from Old Norse fylja; related to Old High German fulihha; see foal

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