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Tilly

proper nounproper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtɪli//

A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.

    Tilly's name is Matilda. It was typical of Mum and Dad that they wouldn't let her be called Tilly when she came to them because that was the unusual shortening of Matilda, the unconventional one, and you never did unconventional things, you never did things to draw attention to yourself. So they called her Matty.

    Whether A.I. is really not trained on copyrighted material is a matter of some debate, but it appears to be trained on the most plentiful material online, which is the home videos you’ve uploaded to YouTube and porn, which could account for the amount of Tillys that appeared on a bed, half-dressed, or dressed but aggressively nippled.

  2. 2

    A surname transferred from the given name.

Etymology

* (given name, nickname): Shortened from Matilda, + -y. * (surname): The surname may also have origins as a matronymic from Matilda.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A number of places in France.

  2. 2

    A surname from Old French.

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Etymology

From French Tilly. Habitational surname from places in France named Tilly, brought to England by the Normans.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of tillyAlternative letter-case form of tilly.

    By the time he stooped to lift him up, we were all in the Tilly that Fiver had brought out to meet us.

Etymology

Diminutive of utility.

Forms

plural
Tillys, Tillies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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