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▪ I. gillie, n.1|ˈgɪlɪ|
Also 6 cuille, geilȝie, 8 gaelly, 8–9 gilly, 9 ghillie.
[a. Gael. gille a lad, servant = Irish gille, giolla.]
1. Hist.
a. An attendant on a Highland chief.
[1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 641/2 Next after the Irish Kearne, me seemes the Irish Horse-boyes or Cuilles (as they call them) would come well in order. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems liv. 2 Fyndlay McConnoquhy..Cativilie geilȝie with ye poik-braik.] c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1754) II. 158 It is very disagreeable to an Englishman over a Bottle, with the Highlanders, to see every one of them have his Gilly; that is, his Servant standing behind him all the while, let what will be the Subject of Conversation. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 3 Sept., We were attended by a..number of Gaellys, or ragged Highlanders. 1814Scott Wav. xix, From the jargon, therefore, of the Highland gillies, I pass to the character of their Chief.
†b. gillie-wetfoot, a rendering of Gael. gillecasfliuch (f. cas foot + fliuch wet); a contemptuous name among Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief; spec., the servant who carried the chief across a stream (see quot. c 1730). Also in adapted form gillie-casflue.
1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 84 Like gilliwetfoots purging states By papers thrown in pocks or hats [1751 Note, Gilliwetfoots, the attendants on highland chieftans]. [c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1754) II. 158 Gillie-casflue carries him [the Chief] when on Foot over the Fords. ]1755Johnson s.v. Sorehon, Whenever a chieftan had a mind to revel, he came down among the tenants with his followers, by way of contempt called in the lowlands giliwitfitts, and lived on free quarters. 1814Scott Wav. xiii. note, A bare⁓footed Highland lad is called a gillie-wet-foot. [1815Mrs. Johnstone Clan Albin v, Roban's father had been Gillie⁓casflue to the old Laird.]
transf.1808–80Jamieson, Gilliewetfoot,..a worthless fellow, a swindler, one who gets into debt and runs off. Loth[ian], almost obsolete.
2. One who attends a sportsman in hunting or fishing in the Scottish Highlands.
1848Clough Bothie iii. 130 They had run, and beaten the gillies of Rannoch. 1873Black Pr. Thule (1874) 5 The tall gillie patiently waited until his master had exhausted his passion. 1884Marquis of Lorne in Pall Mall G. 10 May 2/1 The moral life of a ghillie in a deer forest is a most virtuous one.
3. A type of shoe (see quots.).
1934Webster, Gillies, low-cut sport shoes or ties with laces wound about the ankles. 1939A. Keith Land below Wind xiii. 220 We had tried lace boots, gillies, short riding boots. 1950H. McCloy Through Glass Darkly (1951) vi. 57 And brown shoes. The sort with no tongues and criss-cross laces that they call ‘gillies’.
▪ II. gillie, n.2 Sc.|ˈdʒɪlɪ|
[dim. of gill n.3]
A gill of liquor.
1786Burns On a Scotch Bard 59 I'll toast ye in my hind⁓most gillie Tho' owre the sea. 1790A. Wilson Ep. W. Mitchell xi, Owre a pint or gillie.
▪ III. gillie, n.3 rare.|ˈdʒɪlɪ|
[dim. of gill n.4; cf. gillot, jillet.]
a. A giddy young woman; = gill n.4 1, gillot 1.
b. A mare; = gill n.4 3, gillot 2.
a1529Skelton Elynour Rummyng 390 Of folys fylly That had a fole wyth wylly, With Iast you, and gup, gylly. 1603Philotus xcvii, Sho is a gillie, Scho is a Colt-foill, not a fillie. 1822Hogg Perils of Man I. iv. 54 ‘I wad ride fifty miles to see ony ane of the bonny dames’..‘Twa wanton glaikit gillies, I'll uphaud’, said Pate.
▪ IV. gillie, v.|ˈgɪlɪ|
[f. gillie n.1]
intr. To act as gillie. Hence ˈgillying vbl. n.
1905Daily Chron. 2 Mar. 3/2 Contriving during the long vacation of six months to make enough money—by teaching, gillying or field-labour—to keep himself at the University for another year. 1926Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 153/1 Archie usually gillied for me. 1927Scots Observer 9 Apr. 10/1 Nor is it intended to have classes in gamekeeping and ghillie-ing. |