billy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
  2. A highwayman's club, billy club.
  3. A good friend. Geordie
    — Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
  4. A slubbing or roving machine.
    — […]at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
  5. A billy goat.
    — 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62, Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.
  6. A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot. Australia,New-Zealand
    — Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
  7. A silk handkerchief. UK,obsolete,slang
    — All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]
  8. A bong for smoking marijuana. Australia,slang
  9. A condom. slang

词形变化

billies plural billies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
billy boy billy buttons billy-cock billygoat billy-goat billyhood billy-o billy-oh hillbilly silly-billy Silly Billy swampbilly billy bread billycan billy-can billy cart billyful billy lid billy tea billy tin Christmas billy

词源

词源 1
Of obscure origin. Perhaps a variant of bully (“companion, mate, comrade”). Compare Scots billie (“a comrade; companion”). Compare also Middle Low German billig (“equitable, reasonable, lawful, fitting, according to natural law, just”).
词源 2
Uncertain, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”), perhaps originally from the name Billy, a diminutive of William.
The condom sense from the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy, referring in turn to Billy Boy, a German brand of condoms.
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