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billy

billy (plural billies)

1. A billy club.
2. 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.

   • 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus), in Bowhunters Encyclopedia, page 276,

     In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isnt necessarily a sure thing.

   • 2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 159,

     It isnt just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.

3. (Geordie) A good friend.

   You Spin me right round! billy boy!

4. (Australian, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot.
   • For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
5. (UK, Australian) A billycan.

   Lets get the billy and cook some beans.

   • 1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed, 2004, page 239,

     We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?

   • 2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artists Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, unnumbered page,

     Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio. They didnt even have water.

6. (slang) A condom (From the E-Rotic song ""Willy, Use A Billy...Boy"")
7. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (UK) shortened form of silly billy.

   Why did you eat my bacon, you billy?

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   • 1840, The Citizen, page 347,

     […] 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.”

   • 1967, Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology, page 126,

     On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.

Definizione dizionario billy

manganello

randello

Altri significati:

(UK, Australian) a billycan.

A billy goat.

A billy club.

(Geordie) A good friend.

(Australian, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot.

A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

(slang) A condom (From the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use A Billy...Boy")

(UK) shortened form of silly billy.