filly
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfilly (plural fillies)
- A young female horse.
- Coordinate term: colt
- (dated) A young, attractive woman.
- Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
- 1994 October, Susie Day, “Wake Up and Smell the Lubricant”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
- Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now.
Hypernyms
edit- foal (young horse)
Derived terms
editTranslations
edityoung female horse
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