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sillyhoods

sillyhoods is the plural of sillyhood.

Meaning of sillyhood

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

Questions about sillyhoods

What is sillyhoods the plural of?
Sillyhoods is the plural of sillyhood.

Words near sillyhoods in the dictionary

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

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