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Filley

Filley proper noun: a surname from Middle English.

Proper noun

Filley (countable and uncountable, plural Filleys)

  1. A surname from Middle English.
  2. An unincorporated community in Cedar County, Missouri, United States.
  3. A village in Gage County, Nebraska, United States.

Forms of Filley

pluralFilleys

Origin of Filley

From Middle English filli (“filly, young female horse”), perhaps a nickname for a temperamental or skittish person.

Questions about Filley

What does Filley mean?
Filley means a surname from Middle English.
What part of speech is Filley?
Filley is a proper noun.

Words near Filley in the dictionary

  1. filletings
  2. filletlike
  3. fillets
  4. filletster
  5. filletsters
  6. Filley
  7. Filleys
  8. fillgap
  9. fillibeg
  10. fillibegs
  11. fillibuster

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