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tillies

tillies is the plural of tilly.

Meaning of tilly

Noun (1)

tilly (plural tillies)

  1. (Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
    • Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for...1855, Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney
    Synonyms:
    lagniappe, pasella

Noun (2)

tilly (plural tillies)

  1. (UK) A small open-backed truck.
    • After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.1978, Ada F Kay (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929 / King's Memory, page 83
    Synonyms:
    ute

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Noun capitalized: Tillies

Tillies

  1. (plural) plural of Tillie
  2. (plural) plural of Tilly

Proper noun capitalized: Tillies

Tillies

  1. the Matildas (the Australia women's national soccer team)

Questions about tillies

What does tillies mean?
Tillies means the Matildas (the Australia women's national soccer team).
What is tillies the plural of?
Tillies is the plural of tilly.
What part of speech is tillies?
Tillies can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near tillies in the dictionary

  1. Tillicoultry
  2. Tillie
  3. Tillie and Mac book
  4. Tillie and Mac books
  5. tillie vallie
  6. tillies
  7. Tillietudlem
  8. Tilligerry Creek
  9. tilling
  10. Tillingham
  11. Tillinghast

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