different between tilly vs dilly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).

Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

1. (Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
   • 1855, Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney:

     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 ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.

Synonyms

• lagniappe (America), pasella (South Africa)

Etymology 2

From WWII British Army usage Tilly (“name of a range of British Army vehicles”), from utility.

Alternative forms

• Tilly

Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

1. (Britain) A small open-backed truck.
   • 1978, Ada F Kay (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929 / King's Memory, page 83:

     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.

   • 1980, Once Upon a Ward: V.A.D.s' Own Stories and Pictures, page 119:

     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".

Synonyms

• (small truck): ute (Australia)

Etymology 3

From till +? -y.

Adjective

tilly (comparative more tilly, superlative most tilly)

1. Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

dill +? -y

Adjective

dilly (comparative more dilly, superlative most dilly)

1. Redolent of dill (the herb).

Etymology 2

Noun

dilly (plural dillies)

1. Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.
   • 1958, Raymond Chandler, Playback

     You're the most impossible man I ever met. And I've met some dillies.

Etymology 3

Noun

dilly (plural dillies)

1. (Australia) A dilly bag.

Etymology 4

From Somersetshire dialect; perhaps a blend of daft and silly.

Adjective

dilly (comparative dillier, superlative dilliest)

1. (Australia) Silly; characteristic of a dill.

References

Etymology 5

Contracted from diligence.

Noun

dilly (plural dillies)

1. (dated) A kind of stagecoach.
   • 1798, John Hookham Frere and George Canning, , The Loves of the Triangles

     So, down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
     The Derby dilly, carrying six insides.

2. (obsolete, slang) A night cart.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• idyll