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单词 silly
释义 silly
adj. & n.
--adj (sillier, silliest)
  1. lacking sense; foolish, imprudent, unwise.
  2. weak-minded.
  3. Cricket (of a fielder or position) very close to the batsman (silly mid-off).
  4. archaic innocent, simple, helpless.
--n (pl. -ies) colloq. a foolish person.
Phrases and idioms
silly billy colloq. a foolish person. the silly season high summer as the season when newspapers often publish trivial material for lack of important news.
Derivatives
sillily adv. silliness n.
Etymology: later form of ME sely (dial. seely) happy, repr. OE s{aelig}lig (recorded in uns{aelig}lig unhappy) f. Gmc
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