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单词 gillie
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Forms: 1500s gylly; Scottish pre-1700 jilly, 1800s gillie, 1800s gilly.
Origin: Either (i) from a proper name. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: proper name Jilly ; jill n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: Either < Jilly, Gilly, pet form of the female forename Gillian (see gillian n.; compare -y suffix6), or (ii) < jill n. + -y suffix6.
Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
A fickle, flirtatious, or wanton young woman. Cf. jill n. 1b, jillet n. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > female > mare
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a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 390 Of folys fylly That had a fole wyth wylly, With Iast you, and gup, gylly.
a1700 J. Maidment New Bk. Old Ballads (1844) 14 Sae shee's nae gilter jilly.
1822 J. Hogg Three 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.
1829 in R. Chambers Sc. Songs I. 159 You'll fash na your head wi' a youthfu' gilly, As wild and as skeigh as a muirland filly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

gillien.2

Forms: 1700s jilley, 1700s–1800s gillie.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gill n.2, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < gill n.2 + -y suffix6.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A gill of liquor; a vessel holding a gill.
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1747 Caledonian Mercury July 14 All Sizes of Wine and Ale Decanters, Cruits, Tumblers, Jugs, Jilley, Salts, Salvers.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 233 Owre a pint or gillie.
1809 A. Stewart Poems 6 I coft a drap o' Norland blue And down craig's close twa toothfu's threw Frae maister gillie.
1888 in J. S. Skinner Logie Coll. 95 She brought a gillie and a glass, And slyly named the figure, O!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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