DILLY meaning: Old-fashioned term for something excellent

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word dilly:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

dilly: Merriam-Webster
dilly, dilly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dilly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dilly: Collins English Dictionary
Dilly, dilly: Wordnik
dilly: Wiktionary
dilly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dilly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dilly: Infoplease Dictionary
Dilly, dilly: Dictionary.com
dilly: Online Etymology Dictionary
Dilly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dilly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
dilly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Dilly: Rhymezone
Dilly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
Dilly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
dilly: FreeDictionary.org
dilly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

dilly: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
Dilly, dilly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dilly)

▸ adjective:  Redolent of dill (the herb).
▸ noun:  Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.
▸ noun:  (Australia) A dilly bag.
▸ adjective:  (Australia) Silly; characteristic of a dill.
▸ noun:  (dated) A kind of stagecoach.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, slang) A night cart.
▸ noun:  A surname from French.

Similar:

daint, daisied, delish, dink, daffodil, doolally, dippy, doilied, dootsie, killer diller, more...

Opposite:

silly, sillyness, silliness

Types:

cucumber, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, gourd, more...

Phrases:

dilly bag, dilly bags, dilly dally, dilly dallying, dilly beans, more...

Adjectives:

daffy, down, real, old, poor, little, pic, silly, pick, absent, clean