tilly

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe. Ireland
    — 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.
  2. A small open-backed truck. UK
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).

词形变化

tillies plural tillies plural Tilly alternative more tilly comparative most tilly superlative

词源

词源 1
From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).
词源 2
From WWII British Army usage Tilly (“name of a range of British Army vehicles”), from utility.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English till
English -y
English tilly
From till + -y.
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