Noun: filly
| Singular | filly |
| Plural | fillies |
Sample Sentences
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Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
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Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now. [1994 October, Susie Day, “Wake Up and Smell the Lubricant”, in Gay Community News, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like filly
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen. See: Old Norse Nouns '
fylja', Danish Nouns '
føl', Dutch Nouns '
veulen', German Nouns '
Fohlen'.