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English
Noun
lilly (plural lillies)
- Obsolete form of lily.
See also
Scots
Etymology
From English liefly, from Middle English levely, levelike, lefliȝ, leofliche, from Old English lēoflīċe (“kindly, graciously, gladly, lovingly”), from lēoflīċ, from Proto-Germanic *leubalīka, from Proto-Germanic *leubalīkaz.
Adjective
lilly (comparative mair lilly, superlative maist lilly)
- lovely, beautiful
References
- “lillie”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 2024-06-17, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.