Meanings
nounsillyton (plural sillytons)
plural sillytons
- obsoleteA silly person.
"Lady Constance must I believe that you like that intolerable sillyton?"
1847, Lady Catharine Long, Sir Roland Ashton: A Tale of the Times, page 1101 more example
Why he gets Mony, Applause, Vindications, Apologys; but you must not take him for one of your Downright Sillytons, that, does not know whether he goes on his Head or his Heels.
1684, Sir Roger L'Estrange, The Observator in Dialogue, volume 1, page 145
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