Gillies
Meaning of Gillies
- (in Scotland) a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition.
- a type of shoe with laces along the instep and no tongue, used especially for Scottish country dancing.
late 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic gille ‘lad, servant’. The word was also found in the term gilliewetfoot, denoting a servant who carried the chief over a stream, used as a contemptuous name by Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief. gillie (sense 2) dates from the 1930s.
Information about Gillies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of Gillies is: Gilly.
- Languages in which Gillies is used:
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Hyphenation of Gillies
Gil-lies
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- Gillies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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