spilly
spilly adjective: prone to spilling.
Adjective
spilly (comparative more spilly, superlative most spilly)
- Prone to spilling.
- Then Jeffry, with heavy-handed humor which ill became him, complained within her hearing that most of his oyster stew, spilly food which he had intentionally ordered, had poured over into his coffee.1980, Fannie Hurst, Anatomy of me
- [He was] very windy, and he was very spilly right from the beginning. Just really spilly after every feed, numerous clothing changes for him and for me.2007, Mavis Kirkham, Exploring the dirty side of women's health
Forms of spilly
| comparative | more spilly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most spilly |
Origin of spilly
From spill + -y.
Words that rhyme with spilly
Questions about spilly
- What does spilly mean?
- Spilly means prone to spilling.
- What part of speech is spilly?
- Spilly is an adjective.
Words near spilly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spilly (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “spilly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spilly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.