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Tilly vs Donnybrook - What's the difference?

tilly | donnybrook |

As nouns the difference between tilly and donnybrook

is that tilly is an extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe while donnybrook is a brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.

As an adjective tilly

is containing till unsorted glacial sediment.

As a proper noun Tilly

is {{given name|female|diminutive=Matilda}}.

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).

    • donnybrook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
  • * 1888 , , ‘His Chance in Life’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio 2005), page 56:
    • But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom (Oxford 2003), page 200:
    • Sherman's signature caused another donnybrook over the election of a speaker of the House when the 36th Congress convened in December 1859.
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea (Vintage 2003), page 223:
    • This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.