dilly
pronunciation
How to pronounce dilly in British English:
UK ['dɪlɪ]
How to pronounce dilly in American English:
US ['dɪlɪ]
Word Origin
- dilly (n.)
- "delightful or excellent person or thing" (often used ironically), 1935, American English, from an earlier adjective (1909), perhaps from the first syllable of delightful or delicious, or related to the nursery word for "duck." Dilly was also slang for a stagecoach (1818), from French carrosse de diligence (see diligence).
Example
- 1. Had a dilly of a fight .
- 2. No sissy I watching movie with dilly .
- 3. And they dilly dally , not to act decisively .
- 4. This little car is a real dilly !
- 5. Don 't dilly dally when there is work to be done .