Silly vs Tilly - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between silly and tilly

is that silly is pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless while tilly is containing till unsorted glacial sediment.

As nouns the difference between silly and tilly

is that silly is a silly person; a fool while tilly is an extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.

As a proper noun Tilly is

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silly

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:

A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, / And soild with dust of the long dried way; / His sandales were with toilesome trauell torne, / And face all tand with scorching sunny ray

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

After long storms with which my silly bark was tossed sore.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

The silly buckets on the deck.

(label) Simple, unsophisticated, ordinary; rustic, ignorant.

* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":

For, if we justly call each silly man'' / A ''little island , What shall we call thee than?

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

A fourth man, in a silly habit.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

Foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom; frivolous, trifling.

Irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.

Semiconscious, witless.

(label) Of a fielding position, very close to the batsman; closer than short.

Simple, not intelligent, unrefined.

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke

(label) Happy; fortunate; blessed.

(Chaucer)

(label) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The silly virgin strove him to withstand.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

A silly , innocent hare murdered of a dog.

Derived terms

* sillily (adverb) * silly season

Antonyms

* ("playful"): pious

Synonyms

* ("playful"): charming

Noun

(sillies)

(colloquial) A silly person; a fool.

(colloquial) A mistake.

Anagrams

* * * 1000 English basic words

tilly

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(tillies)

(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 go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my ' tillies .

* 1939 , James Joyce, 'Finnegan's Wake'':

A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.

* 2007 , Patrick Semple, The Rector who Wouldn't Pray for Rain :

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

* Tilly

Noun

(tillies)

(UK) 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 .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Containing (l) (unsorted glacial sediment).