lilly

lilly (plural lillies)

1. Obsolete form of lily.
   • 1961, Goethe, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Faust:

     in tepid baths was mated to a lilly

• lilly-low
• lilly-pilly

• lillie, lily

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.

lilly (comparative mair lilly, superlative maist lilly)

1. lovely, beautiful

• “lillie”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 17 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.