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noun, plural dil·lies. Informal.
- something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual, etc.: a dilly of a movie.
noun
- a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
noun
- Dili.
noun plural -lies
- slang, mainly US and Canadian a person or thing that is remarkable
adjective -lier or -liest
- Australian and NZ slang silly
noun
- the capital (from 2002) of independent East Timor: the former capital (until 1976) of Portuguese Timor. Pop: 50 000 (2005 est)
“delightful or excellent person or thing” (often used ironically), 1935, American English, from an earlier adjective (1909), perhaps from the first syllable of delightful or delicious, or related to the nursery word for “duck.” Dilly was also slang for a stagecoach (1818), from French carrosse de diligence (see diligence).