gilly
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And then, if you have sense, you will turn and talk to the great giant of a gilly who lies basking on the stone beside you.
From The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Warwick Goble
I heard him tell Gideon: "I'll have hell with that gilly kid, he thinks it a minstrel show; I got to hold him down or he'll queer the fake."
From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden
That shines like the shin of a Highland gilly!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
The rose is red, the violet blue, The gilly flower sweet, and so are you.
From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various
And then, if you have sense, you will turn and talk to the great giant of a gilly who lies basking on the stone beside you.
From The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
The child of Imelda Marcos and Dr. Seuss would collect mukluks, galoshes and gillies and high-tops, and also some moccasins, chukkas and flip-flops.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trevison won’t stand for it—though the other gillies are advisin’ caution.
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
His entire demeanour said, "To think that I should have carried the gaff, and gillied good salmon fishermen for years, and be degraded into this mean tomfoolery."
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
