how to pronounce dilly

/ˈdɪliː/

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dilly is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of dilly in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… the legendary dilly bar was born dairy …”

meanings of dilly

noun:

Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.
A dilly bag.
A kind of stagecoach.

adjective:

Redolent of dill (the herb).

dilly frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word dilly occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics dilly can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that dilly can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;