Billy vs Tilly - What's the difference?
billy | tilly |
A billy club.
A billy goat.
* 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries'', '' ,
* 1992 , Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)'', in ''Bowhunter's Encyclopedia ,
* 2002 , Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed ,
# A male goat; a ram.
(Geordie) A good friend.
(Australia, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot.
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(UK, Australia) A billycan.
* 1889 , Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed , 2004,
* 2011 , Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country ,
(slang) A condom (From the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use a Billy...Boy")
A slubbing or roving machine.
* 1840 , The Citizen ,
* 1967 , Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology ,
(Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
* 1855 , Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney :
* 1939 , James Joyce, 'Finnegan's Wake'':
* 2007 , Patrick Semple, The Rector who Wouldn't Pray for Rain :
(UK) A small open-backed truck.
* 1978 , (Ada F Kay) (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929'' / ''King's Memory , page 83:
* 1980 , Once Upon a Ward: V.A.D.s' Own Stories and Pictures , page 119:
As proper nouns the difference between billy and tilly
is that billy is a diminutive of the male given name william while tilly is or tilly can be .As a noun tilly is
.billy
English
Noun
(billies)page 62,
- Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies .
page 276,
- In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
page 159,
- It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.
- Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
page 239,
- We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies', the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with ' billies with no bottoms?
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- Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies , a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.
page 347,
- at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies , giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
page 126,
- On the second floor there were 2 billies , 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.
Derived terms
* billycan, billy-can * billy cart * Silly Billy, silly billyReferences
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The Patrol goes to Camp(pp. 9, 11).
tilly
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(tillies)- Myles:'' "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my ' tillies .
- A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.
- At each door he poured from the can into a pint measure and into the house-wife's jug, always with a tilly for the cat, whether there was a cat or not, sometimes splashing the step with milk to the annoyance of the housewife.
Synonyms
* lagniappe (America), pasella (South Africa)Etymology 2
From WWII British Army usage , from utility.Alternative forms
* TillyNoun
(tillies)- 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".