gillie
/ˈɡɪli
/(also ghillie)
noun
1(In Scotland) a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition.In maybe three more minutes it would have been netted by the gillie, knocked on the head, to be displayed later on outside the hotel dining room....
- My gillie did once report seeing some character walking along a shallow burn in wellington boots, waving a couple of coat hangers.
- The gillie's lodge to the east of the original manor consists of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom.
1.1 historical A Highland chief’s attendant.Queen Victoria ‘inherited’ the gillie John Brown when she bought the Balmoral estate in 1848 and he became a close personal confidante, particularly after her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861....
- The next year the Royal Family bought the 17,400-acre Balmoral for 30,000 guineas, and in 1858 John Brown took Archibald Frazer Macdonald's place as personal gillie to Prince Albert.
2 (usually ghillie) A type of shoe with laces along the instep and no tongue, used especially for Scottish country dancing.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic gille 'lad, servant'. The word was also found in the term gilliewetfoot, denoting a servant who carried the chief over a stream, used as a contemptuous name by Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief. sense 2 dates from the 1930s.
Rhymes
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