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单词 tilly-vally
释义

tilly-vallyint.

Forms: Also 1500s tully valy, 1600s tillie vallie, 1600s, 1800s tilly-fally, 1800s tilley-valley.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Obsolete or archaic.
An exclamation of impatience: Nonsense! fiddlesticks!
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection]
strawc1412
tilly-vallya1529
flam-flirt1590
fiddlestick1600
fiddle-faddle1671
stuff1701
snuff1725
fudge1766
fiddlededeea1784
rats1816
havers1825
humbug1825
gammon1827
rubbish1839
pickles1846
rot1846
skittle1864
slush1869
flapdoodle1878
quatsch1907
phooey1908
tommyrot1931
balls1938
no shit1939
bollocks1940
phonus-bolonus1955
hockey1961
leave it out!1969
a1529 J. Skelton Manerly Margery in Poet. Wks. (1843) I. 28 Tully valy, strawe, let be, I say!
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 81 Tilly fally, sir Iohn, nere tel me: & your ancient swaggrer comes not in my doores. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 75 Am not I consanguinious? Am I not of her blood: tilly vally . View more context for this quotation
c1630 Life Sir T. More iv. 127 Tillie vallie, tillie vallie: will you sitt and make goslings in the ashes?
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 113 Tilley-valley, Mr. Lovel,—which, by the way, one commentator derives from titivillitium, and another from talley-ho—but tilley-valley, I say, a truce with your politeness.
1864 St. James' Mag. 334 Tilly-fally, man!—But go on with your evidence, brother Burt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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