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quilty

quilty adjective: resembling or characteristic of a quilt.

Adjective

quilty (comparative more quilty, superlative most quilty)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a quilt.
    • You'll find some nice quilty gift-type items.2000, Jodie Davis, Hometown Quilts: Paper Piece a Village of Memories, page 122

Proper noun capitalized: Quilty

Quilty (countable and uncountable, plural Quiltys)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A coastal village in County Clare, Ireland.

Forms of quilty

Adjective
comparativemore quilty
superlativemost quilty
Proper noun
pluralQuiltys

Origin of quilty

From quilt + -y.

Variant of Kielty.

Questions about quilty

What does quilty mean?
Quilty means resembling or characteristic of a quilt.
What part of speech is quilty?
Quilty can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near quilty in the dictionary

  1. quiltlike
  2. quiltmaker
  3. quiltmakers
  4. quiltmaking
  5. quilts
  6. quilty
  7. Quiltys
  8. quim
  9. Quimalabasa Norte
  10. Quimalabasa Sur
  11. Quimbanda

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