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- noun An
epithet used inmild teasing for asilly person, or one who has just done something of anfoolish nature.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The next scene showed Silly Billy ringing the front bell and apparently surprising the Shafer children at the door.
Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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The next scene showed Silly Billy ringing the front bell and apparently surprising the Shafer children at the door.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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Some Elizabethan house with its scrap of earlier fourteenth-century building, and its later degradations of Queen Anne and Silly Billy {A} and Victoria, marring but not destroying it, in an old village once a clearing amid the sandy woodlands of Sussex.
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Some Elizabethan house with its scrap of earlier fourteenth-century building, and its later degradations of Queen Anne and Silly Billy and Victoria, marring but not destroying it, in an old village once a clearing amid the sandy woodlands of Sussex.
A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson William Morris 1865
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