Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gillie
Participle: gillied
Gerund: gillying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gillie |
| you | gillie |
| he;she;it | gillies |
| we | gillie |
| you | gillie |
| they | gillie |
Perfect
| I | have gillied |
| you | have gillied |
| he;she;it | has gillied |
| we | have gillied |
| you | have gillied |
| they | have gillied |
Past
| I | gillied |
| you | gillied |
| he;she;it | gillied |
| we | gillied |
| you | gillied |
| they | gillied |
Pluperfect
| I | had gillied |
| you | had gillied |
| he;she;it | had gillied |
| we | had gillied |
| you | had gillied |
| they | had gillied |
Future
| I | will gillie |
| you | will gillie |
| he;she;it | will gillie |
| we | will gillie |
| you | will gillie |
| they | will gillie |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gillied |
| you | will have gillied |
| he;she;it | will have gillied |
| we | will have gillied |
| you | will have gillied |
| they | will have gillied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gillie |
| you | gillie |
| he;she;it | gillie |
| we | gillie |
| you | gillie |
| they | gillie |
Perfect
| I | have gillied |
| you | have gillied |
| he;she;it | have gillied |
| we | have gillied |
| you | have gillied |
| they | have gillied |
Imperfect
| I | gillied |
| you | gillied |
| he;she;it | gillied |
| we | gillied |
| you | gillied |
| they | gillied |
Pluperfect
| I | had gillied |
| you | had gillied |
| he;she;it | had gillied |
| we | had gillied |
| you | had gillied |
| they | had gillied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gillie |
| you | would gillie |
| he;she;it | would gillie |
| we | would gillie |
| you | would gillie |
| they | would gillie |
Perfect
| I | would have gillied |
| you | would have gillied |
| he;she;it | would have gillied |
| we | would have gillied |
| you | would have gillied |
| they | would have gillied |
Imperative
| you | gillie |
| we | Let's gillie |
| you | gillie |
Verbs conjugated like 'gillie'
assoilyie,
belie,
bisie,
destrie,
destruie,
die,
drie,
envie,
forelie,
forlie,
gie,
herie,
hie,
misgie,
noie,
outlie,
outvie,
pie,
prie,
revie, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gillie'
ghillie,
fillip,
gallize,
gill,
gillnet,
allide,
belie,
bile,
bilge,
bill,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).
Sample Sentences
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I had taken bigger fish on the Alta, while fishing as Tony Pulitzer's guest on the Jöraholmen farm, but never under circumstances as bizarre as the day I found myself being ghillied by a girl. [1994, Jeremy Paxman, Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN:]
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[I]t was distance casting that changed my life. I started by gillying for [William] Taylor, retrieving his line between long casts and laying it out in tangle-free coils on the platform at his side. [1998, Phil Genova, quoting Joan Salvato Wulff, “Community Programs”, in First Cast: Teaching Kids to Fly-fish, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 281:]
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Pike they were after. […] They'd sit for hours watching their echo sounder and then when the big bleep would come on it, they'd lower the big baits and wait for the mother of all battles. The first time Frank saw the gear he thought they were going to use depth charges to blow the fish out of the water and he thought this was great crack. Far better than gillying for Northern Irish or Scots who wouldn't give ya a fright. But the Germans were great and every Christmas there'd be a big box of chocolates and clothes from Berlin. [2000, Declan Varley, chapter 4, in Nightmusic, Ireland: Declan Varley, →ISBN:]