/ˈtɪli/
OriginFrom Irish tuilleadh (“more”).
- IrelandAn extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
“Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ”
“He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly.”
“A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.”
- UKA small open-backed truck.
“After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.”
“One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".”
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of tilly.
“By the time he stooped to lift him up, we were all in the Tilly that Fiver had brought out to meet us.”
- Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).
- A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
“Tilly's name is Matilda. It was typical of Mum and Dad that they wouldn't let her be called Tilly when she came to them because that was the unusual shortening of Matilda, the unconventional one, and ”
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- countable, uncountableA number of places in France.
- countable, uncountableA surname from Old French.
Formstillies(plural) · Tilly(alternative) · more tilly(comparative) · most tilly(superlative) · Tillys(plural) · Tillies(plural)
Source: Wiktionary