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sillyhood

sillyhood noun: a caul (part of the amnion that encloses a baby's head at birth).

Noun (1)

sillyhood (plural sillyhoods)

  1. (UK, obsolete, regional) A caul (part of the amnion that encloses a baby's head at birth).

Noun (2)

sillyhood (uncountable)

  1. silliness
    • But for the author who, though successful and publicly known as to his own name, still produces his works under his first fictitious disguise, no excuse can be urged. It is certainly no other fault , but that of sillyhood and trifling […]1823, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review, numbers 190-241, page 475

Forms of sillyhood

pluralsillyhoods

Origin of sillyhood

From silly + -hood.

Questions about sillyhood

What does sillyhood mean?
Sillyhood means a caul (part of the amnion that encloses a baby's head at birth).
What part of speech is sillyhood?
Sillyhood is a noun.
What is the plural of sillyhood?
The plural of sillyhood is sillyhoods.

Words near sillyhood in the dictionary

  1. sillyciding
  2. sillyfic
  3. sillyfics
  4. sillyhead
  5. sillyheads
  6. sillyhood
  7. sillyhoods
  8. sillyish
  9. sillyism
  10. sillyisms
  11. sillykin

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