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DeTilly

DeTilly is the alternative form of Tilly.

Meaning of Tilly

Proper noun (1)

Tilly (plural Tillys)

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
    • Tilly's name is Matilda. It was typical of Mum and Dad that they wouldn't let her be called Tilly when she came to them because that was the unusual shortening of Matilda, the unconventional one, and you never did unconventional things, you never did things to draw attention to yourself. So they...1990, Barbara Vine, Gallowglass, Curley Pub, published 1991, →ISBN, page 24
  2. A surname transferred from the given name.

Proper noun (2)

Tilly (countable and uncountable, plural Tillys)

  1. A number of places in France.
  2. A surname from Old French.
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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Detilly

Detilly

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Tilly (“a surname”).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: deTilly

deTilly

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Tilly (“a surname”).

Questions about DeTilly

What is DeTilly the alternative form of?
DeTilly is the alternative form of Tilly.
What part of speech is DeTilly?
DeTilly is a proper noun.

Words near DeTilly in the dictionary

  1. deths
  2. detick
  3. deticked
  4. deticking
  5. deticks
  6. DeTilly
  7. detin
  8. detinned
  9. detinner
  10. detinners
  11. detinning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DeTilly (page history and authors); Detilly (page history and authors); deTilly (page history and authors); Tilly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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