filly

English

A horse and filly.

Etymology

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪli/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪli
• Homophone: Philly

Noun

filly (plural fillies)

1. A young female horse.

   Coordinate term: colt

2. (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

• foal (young horse)

Derived terms

• fillock

Translations

young female horse

• Albanian: mazore (sq) f
• Arabic: مُهْرَة f (muhra)
• Asturian: potra (ast) f
• Burmese: မြင်းမကလေး (my) (mrang:ma.ka.le:)
• Catalan: poltra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小雌馬 / 小雌马 (xiǎo cí mǎ)

• Czech: kobylka (cs) f, klisnička f
• Dutch: merrieveulen n
• Esperanto: ĉevalidino
• Finnish: tammavarsa
• French: pouliche (fr) f
• Galician: poldra (gl) f, póldrega f
• German: Stutenfohlen n, Stutenfüllen n, Stutfohlen n, Stutfüllen n, weibliches Fohlen n, weibliches Füllen n
• Greek: φοραδίτσα f (foradítsa)

  Ancient: πῶλος f (pôlos)

• Hungarian: kancacsikó (hu)
• Ido: kavalyunino (io)
• Italian: puledra (it) f
• Japanese: 雌の子馬 (mesu no ko-uma)
• Macedonian: ждребица f (ždrebica)
• Malay: kuda betina muda
• Maltese: moħra f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hoppeføll n

• Plautdietsch: Kobbelfalm n
• Polish: klaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: potra (pt) f, potranca (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਵਛੇਰੀ f (vacherī)
• Romanian: mânză (ro) f
• Russian: кобы́лка (ru) f (kobýlka), кобыли́ца (ru) f (kobylíca), жереби́ца f (žerebíca)
• Scottish Gaelic: cliobag f, làireach f, loth f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ждребица f, ждријебица f

  Roman: ždrebica (sh) f, ždrijebica f

• Slovene: žrebica (sl) f
• Spanish: potra f, potranca f
• Swedish: ungsto n, stoföl n
• Volapük: jijevodül (vo)

See also

• colt
• mare
• stallion
• fille