billyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈbɪli/, U.S.

/ˈbɪli/, Scottish English

/ˈbɪlɪ/

Forms: Also billie.

Etymology: Of unknown derivation. (It has been compared with bully n.¹ and German buhle, but to little purpose.)

Scottish and northern dialect.

1. Fellow; companion, comrade, mate.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun]

yferec870

brothereOE

ymonec950

headlingOE

ferec975

fellowOE

friendOE

eveningOE

evenlinglOE

even-nexta1225

compeerc1275

monec1300

companiona1325

partnerc1330

peerc1330

neighbour?c1335

falec1380

matec1380

makec1385

companya1425

sociatec1430

marrow1440

partyc1443

customera1450

conferec1450

pareil?c1450

comparcionerc1475

resortc1475

socius1480

copartner?1504

billy?a1513

accomplice1550

panion1553

consorterc1556

compartner1564

co-mate1576

copemate1577

competitor1579

consociate1579

coach-companion1589

comrade1591

consort1592

callant1597

comrado1598

associate1601

coach-fellow1602

rival1604

social1604

concomitanta1639

concerner1639

consociator1646

compane1647

societary1652

bor1677

socius1678

interessora1687

companioness1691

rendezvouser1742

connection1780

frater1786

matey1794

pardner1795

left bower1829

running mate1867

stable companion1868

pard1872

buddy1895

maat1900

bro1922

stable-mate1941

bredda1969

Ndugu1973

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 107 Be not oure bosteous to ȝour billie.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 226 My auld school-fellow, Preacher Willie, The manly tar, my mason billie.

1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 97 He is but bad, And billie to my son he canna be.

1808 Cumbrian Ball. xlii. 96 My billy Aye thought her the flow'r o' them aw.

1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Billy, a comrade, familiar acquaintance.

2. ‘Fellow,’ in the wider sense (familiar).

ΚΠ

1773 R. Fergusson Poems 118 Here chapmen billies take their stand, An' shaw their bonny wallies.

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 1 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 557 When chapman billies leave the street.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 52 There I met wi' Tam o' Todshaw, and a whin of the rest of the billies on the water side.

3. Brother. (The corresponding feminine is tittie. Both are now considered rude.)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > [noun]

brotherOE

born brotherOE

broa1530

billy1724

buddy1834

bredda1837

bub1841

boetie1867

bruvver1867

Brer1878

bro1893

boet1920

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 22 His minny Meg upo' her back Bare baith him and his billy.

a1748 Dick O' the Cow ii, in W. Scott Minstr. Johnie Armstrang to Willie did say—‘Billie, a riding we will gae.’

Derivatives

billyhood n. brotherhood.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > relationship of brothers > [noun]

brotherhead1340

fraternity1390

brotherhooda1500

billyhood1818

1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 31 That's a stretch o' billyhood that I was never up to afore.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

billyn.²

Brit.

/ˈbɪli/, U.S.

/ˈbɪli/

Etymology: < Billy, familiar perversion of Willie, hypocoristic or pet form of William: compare Bobby = Robby = Robert.

A term applied to various machines and implements:

Thesaurus »

Categories »

a. a slubbing or roving machine.

b. a highwayman's club; a bludgeon; also (U.S.), a policeman's truncheon; see also quot. 1848; also billy club. Cf. uses of Betty n., Jack n.², jemmy n., jenny n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]

sowelc893

treec893

cudgelc897

stinga900

bat?c1225

sticka1275

clubc1275

truncheon14..

bourdonc1325

bastona1400

warderera1400

plantc1400

kibble1411

playloomc1440

hurlbatc1450

ploykc1450

rung1491

libberlac1500

waster1533

batonc1550

macana1555

libbet1562

bastinado1574

crab-tree comb1593

tomahawkc1612

billeta1616

wiper1622

batoon1637

gibbeta1640

crab-bat1647

kibbo1688

Indian club1694

batterdasher1696

crab-stick1703

bloodwipea1705

bludgeon1730

kierie1731

oaken towel1739

crab1740

shillelagh1772

knobstick1783

pogamogganc1788

whirlbat1791

nulla-nulla1798

waddy1800

kevel1807

supple1815

mere1820

hurlet1825

knobkerrie1826

blackthorn1829

bastera1833

twig1842

leangle1845

alpeen1847

banger1849

billy1856

thwack-stave1857

clump1868

cosh1869

nulla1878

sap1899

waddy1899

blunt instrument1923

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > constable's or watchman's

pestlea1500

baton?1590

locust club1850

locust1857

locust stick1859

nightclub1882

nightstick1887

billy1889

1795 Edinb. Advertiser 6 Jan. 15/1 Five common carding engines..four pickers, four roving billies, twenty-one spinning jeannies.

1848 ‘N. Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries N.Y. iv. 49 The foremost villain..broke down her guard with a short iron crowbar, or ‘billy’ as the burglars term it.

1856 Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/5 He was knocked down by a blow from a ‘billy’.

1865 Times 28 Apr. The man struck Mr. Seward on the head with a billy.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1165 The slubbing machine, or billy.

1889 Weekly Scotsman 21 Sept. 3/5 He was felled by Marshal Glade's billy, which stunned him.

1903 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. 1/5 Eight men..set upon [a] Policeman..this morning,..taking his revolver and billy away from him.

1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. I. ii. v. 214 I felt the ache they [sc. policemen] conveyed to rap some head with the handy little billy.

1949 Amer. Speech 24 262 By 1859 the billy club was demanding order in American cities.

1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink ix. 67 Lying in the other bunk was a shark club or ‘billy’.

1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink ix. 67 He had not taken his shark billy.

1969 Listener 3 July 11/2 He thought it necessary, this pig, this racist, to take his billy club out and crush her skull.

c. = billy-goat n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > male

buckc1000

goat buckOE

ramgoat1566

buck-goatc1615

puckaun1735

willy-goat1809

billy1849

billy-goat1860

1849 C. J. Pharazyn Jrnl. 17 Dec. (MS.) 137 Hunting goats Robin shot a Billy.

1928 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 4/6 The Ministry of Agriculture, through the agency of its stud goat scheme, has now placed 103 ‘billies’ at the disposal of small~holders.

Compounds

General attributive. In names of animals, plants, etc., mostly local: as See also the following words.

billy-biter n. the Blue Titmouse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit)

pinnockc1275

meese1480

nun1585

tomtit1648

blue titmouse1673

puffer1773

blue cap1797

pinchem1809

blue bonnet1811

pick-cheesea1825

blue tit1831

billy-biter1843

1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 4/1 Draws back his hand..well pecked by the irritated matron. Hence he calls it ‘Billy Biter.’

Categories »

billy-button n. local name of the Bachelor's Button, Field Scabious, Double Daisy, Red Campion, and various other plants.

billy roller n. the wooden roller of a slubbing ‘billy’ (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting > equipment for > parts of

billy roller1834

Jack-in-the-box1841

cap-bar1897

1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 297 Down came on his head..the patriotic billy-roller.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1166 This is the billy-roller, so much talked of in the controversies between the operatives and masters in the cotton-factories, as an instrument of cruel punishment to children, though no such machine has been used in cotton-mills for half a century at least.

billy-wix n. the Tawny Owl.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

billyn.³

Brit.

/ˈbɪli/, U.S.

/ˈbɪli/, Australian English /ˈbɪli/, New Zealand English

/ˈbɪli/

Etymology: Origin uncertain: perhaps < Australian Aboriginal billa river, water (compare billabong n.).

Australian and New Zealand.

A cylindrical container, usually of tin or enamel ware, with a close-fitting lid and a wire handle, used for making tea and for cooking over fires in the open, and for carrying food or liquid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils

tea-kettle1705

tea-pot1705

maté1717

kitchen1721

tea-kitchen1770

urn1781

tea-urn1786

quart pot1806

tea-maker1814

sukey1823

samovar1830

billy1839

tea-boiler1839

billy-can1885

tea infuser1889

tea-can1890

tea-billy1894

tea ball1895

dixie1900

caddy-spoon1927

drum1931

Teasmade1938

tea machine1963

1839 J. Heberley Autobiogr. (MS.) 87 [We] boiled the Billy and made some Tea out of tawa bark.

1853 J. Rochfort Adventures Surveyor viii. 63 We must needs purchase a ‘billy’ (a tin pot for boiling tea, coffee, meat or anything you may have the luck to get).

1858 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 28 310 We are..boiling our flesh or fowl in our tea-can (called a billy).

1865 G. Mueller My Dear Bannie (1958) ii. 55 Price had a billy lid for a plate.

1872 B. Powell New Homes 48 Men travelling about..invariably carry their billy or quart tin pot, wherein to make tea.

1881 Cheq. Career 361 To cook dampers..and boil a ‘billy’ are works of art.

1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 10 She was letting them have milk at half the town price... And my last job each day was to take a billy up to the back fence.

1943 D. Stewart in Coast to Coast 1942 212 The girls began to pluck handfuls of the berries and carry them to the billies the boys were filling.

1950 G. Wilson Brave Company xi. 179 The billy is boiled and the tea made.

Compounds

Attributive.

ΚΠ

1897 D. McK. Wright Station Ballads & Other Verses 17 The spuds and meat were nicely done, the billy tea was made.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Sept. 9/2 ‘Billy tea,’ says a paragraph issued by the Melbourne Centenary Committee, ‘will be served to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester in the East Gippsland forest.’

Derivatives

ˈbillyful n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > pot or pan

panfula1325

potfulc1390

pot1530

pigful1590

pan1762

saucepanful1825

billyful1866

1866 A. H. Williamson in R. P. Whitworth Martin's Bay Settlement 23/1 Gathered a billyful of mussels..which we had for supper.

1950 G. Wilson Brave Company xi. 179 First we boil a billyful of water.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

n.¹?a1513

n.²1795

n.³1839

单词	billy
释义	billyn.¹ Brit. /ˈbɪli/, U.S. /ˈbɪli/, Scottish English /ˈbɪlɪ/ Forms: Also billie. Etymology: Of unknown derivation. (It has been compared with bully n.¹ and German buhle, but to little purpose.) Scottish and northern dialect. 1. Fellow; companion, comrade, mate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] yferec870 brothereOE ymonec950 headlingOE ferec975 fellowOE friendOE eveningOE evenlinglOE even-nexta1225 compeerc1275 monec1300 companiona1325 partnerc1330 peerc1330 neighbour?c1335 falec1380 matec1380 makec1385 companya1425 sociatec1430 marrow1440 partyc1443 customera1450 conferec1450 pareil?c1450 comparcionerc1475 resortc1475 socius1480 copartner?1504 billy?a1513 accomplice1550 panion1553 consorterc1556 compartner1564 co-mate1576 copemate1577 competitor1579 consociate1579 coach-companion1589 comrade1591 consort1592 callant1597 comrado1598 associate1601 coach-fellow1602 rival1604 social1604 concomitanta1639 concerner1639 consociator1646 compane1647 societary1652 bor1677 socius1678 interessora1687 companioness1691 rendezvouser1742 connection1780 frater1786 matey1794 pardner1795 left bower1829 running mate1867 stable companion1868 pard1872 buddy1895 maat1900 bro1922 stable-mate1941 bredda1969 Ndugu1973 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 107 Be not oure bosteous to ȝour billie. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 226 My auld school-fellow, Preacher Willie, The manly tar, my mason billie. 1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 97 He is but bad, And billie to my son he canna be. 1808 Cumbrian Ball. xlii. 96 My billy Aye thought her the flow'r o' them aw. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Billy, a comrade, familiar acquaintance. 2. ‘Fellow,’ in the wider sense (familiar). ΚΠ 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 118 Here chapmen billies take their stand, An' shaw their bonny wallies. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 1 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 557 When chapman billies leave the street. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 52 There I met wi' Tam o' Todshaw, and a whin of the rest of the billies on the water side. 3. Brother. (The corresponding feminine is tittie. Both are now considered rude.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > [noun] brotherOE born brotherOE broa1530 billy1724 buddy1834 bredda1837 bub1841 boetie1867 bruvver1867 Brer1878 bro1893 boet1920 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 22 His minny Meg upo' her back Bare baith him and his billy. a1748 Dick O' the Cow ii, in W. Scott Minstr. Johnie Armstrang to Willie did say—‘Billie, a riding we will gae.’ Derivatives billyhood n. brotherhood. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > relationship of brothers > [noun] brotherhead1340 fraternity1390 brotherhooda1500 billyhood1818 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 31 That's a stretch o' billyhood that I was never up to afore. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). billyn.² Brit. /ˈbɪli/, U.S. /ˈbɪli/ Etymology: < Billy, familiar perversion of Willie, hypocoristic or pet form of William: compare Bobby = Robby = Robert. A term applied to various machines and implements: Thesaurus » Categories » a. a slubbing or roving machine. b. a highwayman's club; a bludgeon; also (U.S.), a policeman's truncheon; see also quot. 1848; also billy club. Cf. uses of Betty n., Jack n.², jemmy n., jenny n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > constable's or watchman's pestlea1500 baton?1590 locust club1850 locust1857 locust stick1859 nightclub1882 nightstick1887 billy1889 1795 Edinb. Advertiser 6 Jan. 15/1 Five common carding engines..four pickers, four roving billies, twenty-one spinning jeannies. 1848 ‘N. Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries N.Y. iv. 49 The foremost villain..broke down her guard with a short iron crowbar, or ‘billy’ as the burglars term it. 1856 Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/5 He was knocked down by a blow from a ‘billy’. 1865 Times 28 Apr. The man struck Mr. Seward on the head with a billy. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1165 The slubbing machine, or billy. 1889 Weekly Scotsman 21 Sept. 3/5 He was felled by Marshal Glade's billy, which stunned him. 1903 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. 1/5 Eight men..set upon [a] Policeman..this morning,..taking his revolver and billy away from him. 1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. I. ii. v. 214 I felt the ache they [sc. policemen] conveyed to rap some head with the handy little billy. 1949 Amer. Speech 24 262 By 1859 the billy club was demanding order in American cities. 1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink ix. 67 Lying in the other bunk was a shark club or ‘billy’. 1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink ix. 67 He had not taken his shark billy. 1969 Listener 3 July 11/2 He thought it necessary, this pig, this racist, to take his billy club out and crush her skull. c. = billy-goat n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > male buckc1000 goat buckOE ramgoat1566 buck-goatc1615 puckaun1735 willy-goat1809 billy1849 billy-goat1860 1849 C. J. Pharazyn Jrnl. 17 Dec. (MS.) 137 Hunting goats Robin shot a Billy. 1928 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 4/6 The Ministry of Agriculture, through the agency of its stud goat scheme, has now placed 103 ‘billies’ at the disposal of small~holders. Compounds General attributive. In names of animals, plants, etc., mostly local: as See also the following words. billy-biter n. the Blue Titmouse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit) pinnockc1275 meese1480 nun1585 tomtit1648 blue titmouse1673 puffer1773 blue cap1797 pinchem1809 blue bonnet1811 pick-cheesea1825 blue tit1831 billy-biter1843 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 4/1 Draws back his hand..well pecked by the irritated matron. Hence he calls it ‘Billy Biter.’ Categories » billy-button n. local name of the Bachelor's Button, Field Scabious, Double Daisy, Red Campion, and various other plants. billy roller n. the wooden roller of a slubbing ‘billy’ (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting > equipment for > parts of billy roller1834 Jack-in-the-box1841 cap-bar1897 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 297 Down came on his head..the patriotic billy-roller. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1166 This is the billy-roller, so much talked of in the controversies between the operatives and masters in the cotton-factories, as an instrument of cruel punishment to children, though no such machine has been used in cotton-mills for half a century at least. billy-wix n. the Tawny Owl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). billyn.³ Brit. /ˈbɪli/, U.S. /ˈbɪli/, Australian English /ˈbɪli/, New Zealand English /ˈbɪli/ Etymology: Origin uncertain: perhaps < Australian Aboriginal billa river, water (compare billabong n.). Australian and New Zealand. A cylindrical container, usually of tin or enamel ware, with a close-fitting lid and a wire handle, used for making tea and for cooking over fires in the open, and for carrying food or liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils tea-kettle1705 tea-pot1705 maté1717 kitchen1721 tea-kitchen1770 urn1781 tea-urn1786 quart pot1806 tea-maker1814 sukey1823 samovar1830 billy1839 tea-boiler1839 billy-can1885 tea infuser1889 tea-can1890 tea-billy1894 tea ball1895 dixie1900 caddy-spoon1927 drum1931 Teasmade1938 tea machine1963 1839 J. Heberley Autobiogr. (MS.) 87 [We] boiled the Billy and made some Tea out of tawa bark. 1853 J. Rochfort Adventures Surveyor viii. 63 We must needs purchase a ‘billy’ (a tin pot for boiling tea, coffee, meat or anything you may have the luck to get). 1858 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 28 310 We are..boiling our flesh or fowl in our tea-can (called a billy). 1865 G. Mueller My Dear Bannie (1958) ii. 55 Price had a billy lid for a plate. 1872 B. Powell New Homes 48 Men travelling about..invariably carry their billy or quart tin pot, wherein to make tea. 1881 Cheq. Career 361 To cook dampers..and boil a ‘billy’ are works of art. 1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 10 She was letting them have milk at half the town price... And my last job each day was to take a billy up to the back fence. 1943 D. Stewart in Coast to Coast 1942 212 The girls began to pluck handfuls of the berries and carry them to the billies the boys were filling. 1950 G. Wilson Brave Company xi. 179 The billy is boiled and the tea made. Compounds Attributive. ΚΠ 1897 D. McK. Wright Station Ballads & Other Verses 17 The spuds and meat were nicely done, the billy tea was made. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Sept. 9/2 ‘Billy tea,’ says a paragraph issued by the Melbourne Centenary Committee, ‘will be served to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester in the East Gippsland forest.’ Derivatives ˈbillyful n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > pot or pan panfula1325 potfulc1390 pot1530 pigful1590 pan1762 saucepanful1825 billyful1866 1866 A. H. Williamson in R. P. Whitworth Martin's Bay Settlement 23/1 Gathered a billyful of mussels..which we had for supper. 1950 G. Wilson Brave Company xi. 179 First we boil a billyful of water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹?a1513n.²1795n.³1839
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