English
tilly
see also: Tilly
Pronunciation Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

  1. (Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
    • 1855, Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney:
      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.
Synonyms Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

  1. (UK) A small open-backed truck.
    • 1978, Ada F Kay (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929 / King's Memory, page 83:
      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.
    • 1980, Once Upon a Ward: V.A.D.s' Own Stories and Pictures, page 119:
      One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".
Synonyms
  • (small truck) ute (Australia)
Adjective

tilly

  1. Containing till unsorted glacial sediment.
Tilly
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A female given name.
    • 1990 Barbara Vine, Gallowglass, Curley Pub(1991), ISBN 0792705629, page 24:
      Tilly's name is Matilda. It was typical of Mum and Dad that they wouldn't let her be called Tilly when she came to them because that was the unusual shortening of Matilda, the unconventional one, and you never did unconventional things, you never did things to draw attention to yourself. So they called her Matty.
Proper noun
  1. Surname
Noun

tilly (plural Tillies)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of tilly


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