lilly

See also: Lilly and Lillý

English

Noun

lilly (plural lillies)

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

     in tepid baths was mated to a lilly

See also

• lilly-pilly

Scots

Alternative forms

• lillie, lily

Etymology

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.

Adjective

lilly (comparative mair lilly, superlative maist lilly)

1. lovely, beautiful

References

• “lillie” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.