Meaning

2 senses
  1. A young female horse.

    Stutenfohlen, Stutenfüllen, Stutfohlen

    кобы́лкаkobýlka, кобыли́цаkobylíca, жереби́цаžerebíca

    a young female horse under the age of four

  2. (dated)A young, attractive woman.

    Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom stroked the filly.

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  2. Back when I was but a filly, I would spend hours trotting through the plains with my sister.

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  3. Is Cookie a colt or a filly?

    ruКуки жеребёнок или кобылка?

    deIst Cookie ein Hengstfohlen oder ein Stutfohlen?

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  4. The filly was named "Comet" because she was so fast.

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Translations

7 languages
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Origin

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, Germ

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.

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Forms

plural: fillies
Singularfilly
Pluralfillies

regular

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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