gilly
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- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
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- 5
Definition of gilly
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of gillie (“a guide”).
“Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.”
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noun
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of gillie (“a guide”).
“Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.”
- (slang, uncountable)The drink torpedo juice.
name
- A diminutive of the female given name Gillian.
- (countable, uncountable)A surname from French.
- (countable, uncountable)A suburban town in Charleroi municipality, Belgium.
- (countable, uncountable)A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Gilly.
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