Definitions for Dilly

Dilly dil·ly

Spelling: [dil-ee]
IPA: /ˈdɪl i/

Dilly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Dilly (dilly).

Definitions for Dilly

noun

  1. something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual, etc.:
  2. a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
  3. Dili.

Origin of Dilly

1930-35; Americanism; earlier as adj.: wonderful, apparently a shortening of delightful or delicious, with -y

Examples for Dilly

After showing promise, she was plucked out and sent to Bletchley to work in the research unit run by dilly Knox.

dilly got briskly up and gathered a drawer-full of papers into her apron.

dilly looked up at him with her bright, truth-telling glance.

She was no older than dilly, but she had seemed matronly in her teens.

The rest of the day seemed to dilly like a confused though not an unfamiliar dream.

She included them both in a neighborly glance, and dilly was very grateful.

And again, in spite of the Joyces, dilly felt homesick and alone.

"Maybe," said dilly, nodding and tying her last bundle of papers.

It seemed to dilly that she could not make haste enough to be there.

And suddenly dilly was aware that the Joyces were all about her.

Word Value for Dilly
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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