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tilly
/ˈtɪli/
name 4noun 3adj 1
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4ADJ.
all, measureful
VERB + TILLY
called, waste
TILLY + NOUN
fiver, lilly, truck, utility
PREP.
in, off, with
Definitions
noun
1
An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.
He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly.
noun
1
A small open-backed truck.
After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.
One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".
adj
1
Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).
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Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate
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He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly.
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A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.
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After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.
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One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".
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Tilly's name is Matilda. It was typical of Mum and Dad that they wouldn't let her be called Tilly when she came to them because that was the unusual shortening of Matilda, the unconventional one, and
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