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Etymologies
- From WWII British Army usage Tilly ("name of a range of British Army vehicles"), from utility. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I have a wide brimmed Cabela's breezer hat (poor man's tilly) that does an excellent job.”
“If you don't like captain's hats because you think they are made out of white velvet -- something you are allergic too -- and I know they are made out of tilly cotton and can prove it by showing you the tag, I'm going to show you the tag.”
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“But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up.”
“I tilly tallied the 99 restaurants by geographical location and by cuisine, as if I were writing some kind of Executive Summary for a de-briefing meeting because I miss working that much.”
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“There was a camp-bed, a bulging rucksack, a row of books, a tilly lamp, a low cupboard and a basket in which Emily was ensconced.”
“The wind and rain buffeted the tarpaulin walls and by the flickering light of the tilly lamp I saw Eugene in his chair, stroking Emily, who lay in the basket by his side.”
“All these so tired my imagination, that I heaved up my buttocks to start another heat in love's steeple chase, and the little dark tilly at once bounded on her course with all the fire of her nature.”
“A gen-till-man the other day told me that only the peasants in Americay say Missus or Mis-triss, and that the riv-aire con-se-kwen-tilly was not”
“Lady More did not care for these things, she liked better to dress herself very smartly and lace herself very tight; and when her husband laughed at her, she said, 'Tilly, vally, Sir Thomas! tilly, vally!' just as we should say, 'Tut, tut!”
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