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Dillion vs Pillion - What's the difference?

dillion | pillion |

As nouns the difference between dillion and pillion

is that dillion is an unspecified large number (of) while pillion is a pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.

As an adverb pillion is

riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.

dillion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
  • * 1982 , Roald Dahl, The BFG
    • 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours.
  • * 2012 , Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo
    • He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
  • * 2014 , Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
    • You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    pillion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.
  • *
  • A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.
  • The person riding in the pillion.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.