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filly

/ˈfɪli/

filly noun: a young female horse.

filly: a young female horse
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Noun

filly (plural fillies)

  1. A young female horse.
  2. (dated) A young, attractive woman.
    • Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
    • Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now.1994 October, Susie Day, “Wake Up and Smell the Lubricant”, in Gay Community News, page 8

filly meaning in Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic and Malay

filly in Urdu

چنچل چھوری, جوان گھوڑی

filly in Punjabi

young female horse
ਵਛੇਰੀ vacherī

filly in Arabic

young female horse
مُهْرَة muhra

filly in Malay

young female horse
kuda betina muda
More languagesFewer languages
filly in Myanmar
မြင်းမကလေး mrang:ma.ka.le:

Examples of filly in a sentence

  • She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
  • The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.
  • That's not the formula to beat a filly like Windy's Daughter.

All 12 example sentences with filly

Forms of filly

pluralfillies

Plural of filly: fillies

Origin of filly

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.

Words formed from filly

Words that rhyme with filly

22 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about filly

What does filly mean?
Filly means a young female horse.
What is filly in Urdu?
Filly in Urdu is چنچل چھوری, جوان گھوڑی. See Filly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is filly?
Filly is a noun.
How do you pronounce filly?
Filly is pronounced /ˈfɪli/.
What is the plural of filly?
The plural of filly is fillies.

Words near filly in the dictionary

  1. fills up
  2. fillum
  3. fillums
  4. fillup
  5. fillups
  6. filly
  7. fillér
  8. fillérs
  9. film
  10. film at 11
  11. film at eleven

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: filly (page history and authors); filly (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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