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tilly-vally

tilly-vally interjection: expressing contempt, or rejecting anything trifling or impertinent.

Interjection

  1. (obsolete) Expressing contempt, or rejecting anything trifling or impertinent.
    • Sir Toby Belch: My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
      a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
      I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
      Tillyvally. Lady!c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of tilly-vally

alternative formtilly-fally
alternative formtillie vallie

Origin of tilly-vally

Unknown.

Questions about tilly-vally

What does tilly-vally mean?
Tilly-vally means expressing contempt, or rejecting anything trifling or impertinent.
What part of speech is tilly-vally?
Tilly-vally is an interjection.

Words near tilly-vally in the dictionary

  1. Tillsons
  2. tilly
  3. Tilly bone
  4. Tilly bones
  5. tilly-fally
  6. tilly-vally
  7. Tillyfourie
  8. Tillynaught
  9. Tillys
  10. tilma
  11. tilmacoxib

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