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单词 filly
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fillyn.

Brit. /ˈfɪli/, U.S. /ˈfɪli/
Forms: α. Middle English (in combinations), 1500s fely, (1500s felee, felly), Middle English–1700s fillie, (1500s file, fille, fyllye, 1700s filley), 1500s– filly. β. 1600s philly.
Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse fylja.
Etymology: ? < Old Norse fylja weak feminine < *fuljôn- , < ful- , fol- : see foal n.
1.
a. A young mare, a female foal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > female > filly
filly-stag1378
filly?a1400
?a1400 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 51 Atter and foxe, fillie, mare alsoe.
1525 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 206 To Thomas Milner, hir sone, a file with a white foite.
a1641 J. Suckling Answer to Let. in Wks. (1696) 99/2 An unback'd Filly may by chance give thee a fall.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4591/4 Stoln or stray'd..a black Fillie, two years old.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. iii. 93 What's good for the filly, is good for the mare, say I.
b. to slip her filly: transferred of a woman, to miscarry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > have or cause pregnancy or birth disorder [verb (intransitive)] > miscarry
abort1540
miscarry1560
to slip (cast) the calf1664
to slip her filly1665
1665 S. Pepys Diary 31 Mar. (1972) VI. 71 My Lady Castlemayne is sick again—people think, slipping her filly.
2. transferred. Applied to a young lively girl.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]
maiden-childeOE
maidenOE
maidc1275
maid-childc1275
wenchc1290
thernec1300
lassc1325
maidenkinc1330
child-womana1382
girlc1400
pucelle1439
maidkin1440
mawther1440
mop1466
woman-child?1515
bonnea1529
urchina1535
kinchin-mort1567
dandiprat1582
prill1587
sluta1592
little girl1603
maggie1603
tendril1603
squall1607
childa1616
filly1616
vriester1652
miss1668
gilpie1720
lassie1725
laddess1768
jeune fillea1777
bitch1785
girly?1786
gal1795
ladyling1807
missikin1815
colleen1828
girleen1833
snowdrop1833
pinafore1836
chica1843
fillette1847
charity-girl1848
urchiness1852
Mädchen1854
gel1857
pusill1884
backfisch1888
girly-girly1888
cliner1895
tittie1918
weeny1929
bobby-soxer1944
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female
gig?c1225
gigleta1340
halok?1507
fizgiga1529
gilliea1529
flirt1562
peat1566
sluta1592
gillian flirt1593
giggle1611
filly1616
jill-flirt1627
flibbertigibbet1640
flirtigig1683
flip-flap1702
gamine1848
kitten1870
sillypop1894
frippet1908
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. F2v A skittish Filly will be your fortune, Welford.
1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden i. i I believe nobody will be very fond of a Hide-Park Filly for a Wife.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 211. ¶9 I am joined in Wedlock for my Sins to one of those Fillies who are described in the old Poet.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) l. 390 Katharine's a young filly that will neither be led nor driven.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. iii. 41 You are but a filly yet.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
filly-foal n.
ΚΠ
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxx It is a hors fole bycause a hors gate it, though it be a fely fole.
1884 West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/5 Brown draught brood mare, with filly foal.
C2.
filly-stag n. Obsolete a filly foal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > female > filly
filly-stag1378
filly?a1400
1378 Will of J. Delmarshe in Test. Karl. (1893) 125 Item Johanni, filio Thomæ Sympson, unum felystag.

Derivatives

ˈfilly v. Obsolete to give birth to a filly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [verb (intransitive)] > give birth
foal1521
filly1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Partorire..to calue..to fillie.
ˈfillying n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > female > mare > giving birth
foaling1398
fillying1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Parto..a caluing,..a fill [y] ing, etc.
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