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▪ I. filly, n.|ˈfɪlɪ|
Forms: α. 4 (in Comb.), 6 fely, (6 felee, felly), 5–8 fillie, (6 file, fille, fyllye, 8 filley), 6– filly. β. 7 philly.
[? a. ON. fylja wk. fem.:—*fuljôn-, f. ful-, fol-: see foal.]
1. A young mare, a female foal.
a1400Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 51 Atter and foxe, fillie, mare alsoe. 1525Test. Ebor. (Surtees) 206 To Thomas Milner, hir sone, a file with a white foite. a1641Suckling Answ. to Let. Wks. (1696) 99/2 An unback'd Filly may by chance give thee a fall. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4591/4 Stoln or stray'd..a black Fillie, two years old. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. iii. 93 What's good for the filly, is good for the mare, say I.
b. to slip her filly: transf. of a woman, to miscarry.
1665Pepys Diary 31 Mar., My Lady Castlemaine is sick again—people think, slipping her filly.
2. transf. Applied to a young lively girl.
1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornful Lady iii. i, A skittish filly will be your fortune, Welford. 1668Sedley Mulb. Gard. i. i, I believe nobody will be very fond of a Hide-Park Filly for a Wife. 1711Addison Spect. No. 211 ⁋9, I am joined in Wedlock for my Sins to one of those Fillies who are described in the old Poet. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies l. (1875) 390 Katharine's a young filly that will neither be led nor driven. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 41 You are but a filly yet.
3. attrib. and Comb., as filly-foal; † filly-stag, a filly foal.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §68 It is a horse foole, bycause a horse gate it, though it be a *felly fole. 1884W. Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept. Advt., Brown draught brood mare, with filly foal.
1378Will of J. Delmarshe in Test. Karl. (1893) 125 Item, Johanni, filio Thomæ Sympson, unum *felystag.
Hence † ˈfilly v., to give birth to a filly. ˈfillying, vbl. n.
1598Florio, Partorire..to calue..to fillie. Parto..a caluing,..a fill[y]ing, etc.
▪ II. filly
obs. form of (felloe), felly. |