Examples
“My ghillie is a 3/4 length cape with sleeves and separate leggings and headgear.”
“Krainer was wearing a military-style camouflage outfit known as a ghillie suit.”
“One thing I quickly learned was to not call my guide a "ghillie," which Americans use to mean fishing guide but which literally means "servant" in Ireland.”
“The officer then realized there was a man hiding at his feet, dressed in a "ghillie" suit,”
“But when you Google "ghillie," the first and most abundant results are for ghillie suit, a type of camouflage worn for centuries by hunters, soldiers and, more recently, paintball enthusiasts.”
“As another old-time guide told me over an evening pint, "You can call me 'Hey, you," or you can call me 'sport,' or you can call me a guide, but don't you nay call me (expletive deleted) 'ghillie'".”
“But I believe a ghillie suit is the best way to go when in the woods.”
“A close observer might have noticed her shoulders shaking when she played Queen Victoria in the movie "Mrs. Brown": During an enchanting long shot of her trusty ghillie leading Herself through the Highland braes, her pony broke wind with almost every step.”
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“If you take a shot at identified game and miss only to strike a guy in a ghillie suit 50 yards behind your target, it's tough to say you should have seen him.”
“Well were all fishing why don't we just wear are scent-lok or ghillie suits to.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ghillie’.
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Starts with "Gh"
gherkin, ghost, ghee, ghetto, Ghaemshahr, ghyll, ghastly, gharry, ghibelline, ghostfish, ghaut, ghillie and 17 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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ABC
words which contain a string of three or more consecutive letters
crabcake, student, definitive, coughing, understudy, afghan, rijksmuseum, calmness, canopy, pop quiz, tuvalu, hijinks and 21 more...
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sionnach from the Gaelic word "giolla", meaning servant. Primary modern usage is to refer to a fishing and hunting guide. Many Irish and Scottish surnames, my own included, begin with "Gil" (in the anglicized form), with the etymology deriving from "giolla". Nov 10, 2007
bilby A male attendant or personal servant to a Highland chieftain; a fishing and hunting guide; the type of traditional walking shoe worn by such a guide; a similar but softer-soled shoe used for dancing.
Alternate spelling gillie. Nov 9, 2007