English
billy
see also: Billy
Noun

billy (plural billies)

  1. A billy club.
  2. A billy goat.
    • 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, [http://books.google.com/books?id=EmQPCdT71LAC&pg=PA62&dq=%22billies%22+-intitle:%22billy|billies%22+-inauthor:%22billy%22&hl=en&ei=SdvlTv3zIrGtiQekz8i2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billies%22%20-intitle%3A%22billy|billies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22billy%22&f=false page 62],
      Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.
    • 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus), in Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_0CLP-NbOXgC&pg=PA276&dq=%22billies%22+-intitle:%22billy|billies%22+-inauthor:%22billy%22&hl=en&ei=VODlTrqLBo6tiQeOz-i1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billies%22%20-intitle%3A%22billy|billies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22billy%22&f=false page 276],
      In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
    1. A male goat; a ram.
  3. (Geordie) A good friend.
  4. (Australia, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea; a billycan; a billypot.
    Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
    • 1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed, 2004, [http://books.google.com/books?id=bl8cItSP_-QC&pg=PA239&dq=%22billies%22+-intitle:%22billy|billies%22+-inauthor:%22billy%22&hl=en&ei=JP3lTsqUO4SciQe50Zm2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billies%22%20-intitle%3A%22billy|billies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22billy%22&f=false page 239],
      We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?
    • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Loyalty,"
      Mother prepared a splendid picnic. […] Rugs, food and the black billy for making tea, were packed into the old baby buggy and we trundled it straight down Simcoe Street.
    • 2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, [http://books.google.com/books?id=OS03Q_Xt4BYC&pg=PT8&dq=%22billies%22+-intitle:%22billy|billies%22+-inauthor:%22billy%22&hl=en&ei=JP3lTsqUO4SciQe50Zm2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billies%22%20-intitle%3A%22billy|billies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22billy%22&f=false unnumbered page],
      Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.
  5. (slang) A condom (from the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use a Billy... Boy")
  6. A slubbing or roving machine.
    • 1840, The Citizen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rC8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA347&dq=%22billies%22+-intitle:%22billy|billies%22+-inauthor:%22billy%22&hl=en&ei=ngTmTojVKMaTiAfcv6G2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22billies%22%20-intitle%3A%22billy|billies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22billy%22&f=false page 347],
      […] at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
Billy
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A male given name.
  2. (US, nickname) The B-25 twin-engine bomber aircraft used during World War Two, commonly called the "B-25 Mitchell" in honor of U.S. Army General William "Billy" Mitchell.
    2003 Bradley, James Flyboys. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 7:
    • Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead [...].
Translations
  • Russian: Би́лли


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