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fillibeg

fillibeg is the alternative form of philibeg.

Meaning of philibeg

Noun

philibeg (plural philibegs)

  1. A little kilt.
    • Instead of plaids and philibegs, and trews, they were, henceforth, to be clothed in coats and in waistcoats, and (worst of all) in BREECHES!!!1846, John Campbell, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England

Forms of fillibeg

pluralfillibegs

Questions about fillibeg

What is fillibeg the alternative form of?
Fillibeg is the alternative form of philibeg.

Words near fillibeg in the dictionary

  1. filletster
  2. filletsters
  3. Filley
  4. Filleys
  5. fillgap
  6. fillibeg
  7. fillibegs
  8. fillibuster
  9. fillibustered
  10. fillibustering
  11. fillibusters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fillibeg (page history and authors); philibeg (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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