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tilly

nounnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtɪli//

An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.

noun

  1. 1

    An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.

    Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.

    He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly.

    A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.

    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.

Etymology

From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).

noun

  1. 1

    A small open-backed truck.

    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.

    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".

Etymology

From WWII British Army usage Tilly (“name of a range of British Army vehicles”), from utility.

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).

Etymology

From till + -y.

Forms

plural
tillies
comparative
more tilly
superlative
most tilly
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