Dilly
Meaning of Dilly
- an excellent example of a particular type of person or thing.
that's a dilly of a breakfast recipe
late 19th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘delightful’): alteration of the first syllable of delightful or delicious.
adjective
odd; foolish.
late 19th century: perhaps a blend of daft and silly.
noun
a bag or basket of traditional Aboriginal design, made from woven grass or fibre.
from Yagara (an Aboriginal language of Queensland) dili ‘coarse grass or reeds; a bag woven of this’ + bag.
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Hyphenation of Dilly
Dilly
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- Dilly is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of Dilly
Words that rhyme with Dilly
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