gilly

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noun

The drink torpedo juice.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

gilly1

noungilly (plural gillies)

plural gillies

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gillie (“a guide”).
    1 more example

    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.

    2010, John W. Stevens, “Atlantic Salmon from Hell and Back”, in Memorable Fish and Fishermen, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN

gilly2

noungilly (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountableThe drink torpedo juice.

Gilly3

proper noun
  1. A diminutive of the female given name Gillian.

Gilly4

proper nounGilly (countable and uncountable, plural Gillys)

plural Gillys

  1. countableuncountableA surname from French.
  2. countableuncountableA suburban town in Charleroi municipality, Belgium.
  3. countableuncountableA municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.

Origin

  1. FrenchGilly
  2. EnglishGilly

Borrowed from French Gilly.

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Cite this entry
APA

gilly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilly

MLA

“gilly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gilly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gilly.

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