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Definition of gillie in English: gillie(also ghillie) nounˈɡɪliˈɡɪli 1(in Scotland) a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition. Example sentencesExamples - The gillie's lodge to the east of the original manor consists of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom.
- In maybe three more minutes it would have been netted by the gillie, knocked on the head, to be displayed later on outside the hotel dining room.
- My gillie did once report seeing some character walking along a shallow burn in wellington boots, waving a couple of coat hangers.
- After a while I was joined by Kenny, the local ghillie.
- The committee decided not to take evidence from the Crofting Counties Fishing Rights Group, which represents some 500 gillies, river bailiffs and other river workers in the Highlands.
- 1.1historical A Highland chief's attendant.
Example sentencesExamples - Queen Victoria ‘inherited’ the gillie John Brown when she bought the Balmoral estate in 1848 and he became a close personal confidante, particularly after her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861.
- The next year the Royal Family bought the 17,400-acre Balmoral for 30,000 guineas, and in 1858 John Brown took Archibald Frazer Macdonald's place as personal gillie to Prince Albert.
2usually ghillieA type of shoe with laces along the instep and no tongue, used especially for Scottish country dancing.
Origin Late 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic gille 'lad, servant'. The word was also found in the term gilliewetfoot, denoting a servant who carried the chief over a stream, used as a contemptuous name by Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief. sense 2 dates from the 1930s. Rhymes Billie, billy, Chile, chilli (US chili), chilly, Dili, dilly, filly, frilly, ghillie, Gilly, hilly, Lillee, lily, Lyly, papillae, Philly, Piccadilly, piccalilli, silly, skilly, stilly, Tilly, willy-nilly Definition of gillie in US English: gillie(also ghillie) nounˈɡilēˈɡɪli 1(in Scotland) a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition. Example sentencesExamples - In maybe three more minutes it would have been netted by the gillie, knocked on the head, to be displayed later on outside the hotel dining room.
- After a while I was joined by Kenny, the local ghillie.
- The committee decided not to take evidence from the Crofting Counties Fishing Rights Group, which represents some 500 gillies, river bailiffs and other river workers in the Highlands.
- My gillie did once report seeing some character walking along a shallow burn in wellington boots, waving a couple of coat hangers.
- The gillie's lodge to the east of the original manor consists of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom.
- 1.1historical A Highland chief's attendant.
Example sentencesExamples - The next year the Royal Family bought the 17,400-acre Balmoral for 30,000 guineas, and in 1858 John Brown took Archibald Frazer Macdonald's place as personal gillie to Prince Albert.
- Queen Victoria ‘inherited’ the gillie John Brown when she bought the Balmoral estate in 1848 and he became a close personal confidante, particularly after her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861.
2usually ghillieA type of shoe with laces along the instep and no tongue, especially those used for Scottish country dancing.
Origin Late 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic gille ‘lad, servant’. The word was also found in the term gilliewetfoot, denoting a servant who carried the chief over a stream, used as a contemptuous name by Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief. gillie (sense 2) dates from the 1930s. |