tilly-vally

interjection

Expressing contempt, or rejecting anything trifling or impertinent.

Meanings

interjection

alternative tilly-fally · alternative tillie vallie

  1. obsoleteExpressing 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

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Chicago

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