- a variation of gillie.
gilly
1 Americannoun
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gillies
plural
noun
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gillies
plural
verb (used with or without object)
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gilly
gill (dial.) < ? + -y 2
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Then he looked at the garden and saw that it was full of jessamine and gilly flowers and violets and roses and orange blossoms and all manner sweet-scented blooms and herbs.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
As I came over the grey, grey hills And over the grey, grey water, I saw the gilly leading on, And the white Christ following after.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
The rose is red, the violet blue, The gilly flower sweet, and so are you.
From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various
"Don't pull, madam," shouted the gilly, and it was well he did, for I was just on the point of giving an awful jerk to get the fish loose from Jone.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Frank Richard Stockton
The air came in from the garden, sweet but chilly, laden with the scent of lilac and gilly flowers.
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
The child of Imelda Marcos and Dr. Seuss would collect mukluks, galoshes and gillies and high-tops, and also some moccasins, chukkas and flip-flops.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
The king's gillies came to seek the bran, and they took the four sacks with them, and they emptied them before the horses.
From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various
His entire demeanour said, "To think that I should have carried the gaff, and gillied good salmon fishermen for years, and be degraded into this mean tomfoolery."
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
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