Tilly vs Stilly - What's the difference?

tilly | stilly |

As a proper noun tilly

is or tilly can be .

As a noun tilly

is .

As an adjective stilly is

silent; calm.

As an adverb stilly is

while still and calm.

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).

stilly

English

Adjective

(head)

silent; calm

* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1879, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Thackeray, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs

* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=Stephen King, title=The Green Mile, chapter=4, edition=Pocket Books, url=

, passage= . . . Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.}}

Adverb

(-)

While still and calm

* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=George A. Lawrence, title=Guy Livingstone;, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=She passed away very stilly and painlessly. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Mary Johnston, title=Audrey, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=S.R. Crockett, title=Bog-Myrtle and Peat, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board. }}