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PRONUNCIATION OF WHILLY

whilly  [ˈhwɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WHILLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Whilly is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb whilly in English.

WHAT DOES WHILLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of whilly in the English dictionary

The definition of whilly in the dictionary is to influence by flattery.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WHILLY

PRESENT

Present
I whilly
you whilly
he/she/it whillies
we whilly
you whilly
they whilly
Present continuous
I am whillying
you are whillying
he/she/it is whillying
we are whillying
you are whillying
they are whillying
Present perfect
I have whillied
you have whillied
he/she/it has whillied
we have whillied
you have whillied
they have whillied
Present perfect continuous
I have been whillying
you have been whillying
he/she/it has been whillying
we have been whillying
you have been whillying
they have been whillying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I whillied
you whillied
he/she/it whillied
we whillied
you whillied
they whillied
Past continuous
I was whillying
you were whillying
he/she/it was whillying
we were whillying
you were whillying
they were whillying
Past perfect
I had whillied
you had whillied
he/she/it had whillied
we had whillied
you had whillied
they had whillied
Past perfect continuous
I had been whillying
you had been whillying
he/she/it had been whillying
we had been whillying
you had been whillying
they had been whillying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will whilly
you will whilly
he/she/it will whilly
we will whilly
you will whilly
they will whilly
Future continuous
I will be whillying
you will be whillying
he/she/it will be whillying
we will be whillying
you will be whillying
they will be whillying
Future perfect
I will have whillied
you will have whillied
he/she/it will have whillied
we will have whillied
you will have whillied
they will have whillied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been whillying
you will have been whillying
he/she/it will have been whillying
we will have been whillying
you will have been whillying
they will have been whillying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would whilly
you would whilly
he/she/it would whilly
we would whilly
you would whilly
they would whilly
Conditional continuous
I would be whillying
you would be whillying
he/she/it would be whillying
we would be whillying
you would be whillying
they would be whillying
Conditional perfect
I would have whilly
you would have whilly
he/she/it would have whilly
we would have whilly
you would have whilly
they would have whilly
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been whillying
you would have been whillying
he/she/it would have been whillying
we would have been whillying
you would have been whillying
they would have been whillying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you whilly
we let´s whilly
you whilly
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to whilly
Past participle
whillied
Present Participle
whillying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WHILLY


bailey
ˈbeɪlɪ
billy
ˈbɪlɪ
chile
ˈtʃɪlɪ
chili
ˈtʃɪlɪ
daily
ˈdeɪlɪ
easily
ˈiːzɪlɪ
family
ˈfæmɪlɪ
guidwillie
ˈɡuːdˌwɪlɪ
heavily
ˈhevɪlɪ
highly
ˈhaɪlɪ
lily
ˈlɪlɪ
necessarily
ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ
Riley
ˈraɪlɪ
silly
ˈsɪlɪ
tranquilly
ˈtræŋkwɪlɪ
twilly
ˈtwɪlɪ
wili
ˈwɪlɪ
willie
ˈwɪlɪ
willy
ˈwɪlɪ
willy-willy
ˈwɪlɪˈwɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHILLY

whigmaleerie
whigmaleery
while
while away
while-you-wait heel repairs
whilere
whiles
whilk
whillywha
whilom
whilst
whim
whim-wham
whim-whams
whimberry
whimbrel
whimmy
whimper
whimperer
whimpering

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHILLY

Bareilly
Caerphilly
Chantilly
chilly
dilly
evilly
filly
frilly
gilly
hillbilly
hilly
Piccadilly
psychobilly
rockabilly
shrilly
silly-billy
skilly
stilly
Tilly
willy-nilly

Synonyms and antonyms of whilly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «whilly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHILLY

Find out the translation of whilly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of whilly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «whilly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

whilly
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Whilly
570 millions of speakers

English

whilly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

whilly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

whilly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

whilly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

whilly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

whilly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

whilly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

whilly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

whilly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

whilly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Whilly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

whilly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

whilly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झुबकेदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

whilly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

whilly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

whilly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

whilly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

whilly
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

whilly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

whilly
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

whilly
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

whilly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of whilly

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WHILLY»

The term «whilly» is normally little used and occupies the 118.861 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WHILLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «whilly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «whilly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about whilly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHILLY»

Discover the use of whilly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to whilly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Isl. hvell-a sonare, hvell-r sonitus, and lu lassitu- do ; q. a dull or flat air. WHILLIE- WHA, 1. A person on whom there can be no dependence.] Add, as sense 2. A cheat, S. If ye gang near the South-sea house, The whilly-whas will grip your gear.
John Jamieson, 1841
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Isl. hvell-a sonare, hvell-r sonitus, and lu lassitu- do ; q. a dull or flat air. WHILLIE- WHA, 1. A person on whom there can be no dependence.] Add, as sense 2. A cheat, S. If ye gang near the South-sea house, The whilly-whas will grip your gear.
John Jamieson, 1825
3
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
To WHILLY, WHULLY, v. a. gull, 5. They spoil'd my wife, and staw my cash, My Muse's pride murgullied ; By printing it like their vile trash, The honest leidges whully'd. To cheat, to Ramsay's Address to the Tuzcn council of Edinburgh, A. 1719.
John Jamieson, 1808
4
Iain Oughtred: A Life in Wooden Boats
Colin Galloway at the helm ofhis Whilly Boat, the smallest in Iain's range ofShetland-style double-enders. (Photo: Kathy Mansfield.) the naivety of their questions, the Greenwich show nine years later was a true gathering of the cognoscenti.
Nic Compton, 2009
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The Scottish Songs; Collected and Illustrated
If ye gang near the South-sea House, The whilly-whasfi- will grip your gear; Syne a' the lave will fare the waur For our lang biding here. THE HUSBAND'S SONG. WILLIAM WILSON. WHA my kettle now will. I Written on the famous South-Sea ...
Robert Chambers, 1829
6
The Pronunciation of the English Language Vindicated from ...
... primsie, precise ; sonsie, one of engaging look ; naif' genuine, &c. ; syne, since. These words deserve notice . Lyn, watery places, hence Lincolnshire, &c ; whilly, cheat, thence, whilly in the wisp, deluding meteor, like a blazing wisp of straw.
James Adams, 1799
7
The Scottish Songs
... in trowth, For our lang biding here, But when we fand our purses toom,** And dainty stocks began to fa', \Ve hung our lugs,-H- and, wi' a gloom, Girned at stock- jobbing, ace and a'. If ye gang near the South-sea House, The whilly-whas *.
‎1829
8
The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
cruise, drift, free-wheel, glide, sail. coax v. allure, beguile, cajole, decoy, entice, flatter, inveigle, persuade, soft-soap, sweet-talk, wheedle. whilly, whilly-wah(w), wile. coddle v. baby, cocker, cosset, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, nurse, pamper, ...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
9
Poems. Begin.
Weit, Rain. Werjh, Insipid, Wallowish, wantJ ing Salt Whauk, Whip, beat, flog. Whid, To fly cjuickly, A Whii is a hasty Fliglit. Wbilk, Which. Whilly, To cheat. Whilly -viha, A Cheat Wbindging, Whinning, speaking with a doleful Tone. ff1:ins, Fium.
Allan Ramsay, 1720
10
In the South: Tales of Sail and Yearning
He has owned other craft and, when still only 21 years of age, launched a self- built Whilly boat, with a modified yawl rig, to the design of Iain Oughtred. Atkins will tell you he has a yearning for the sense of self-reliance that comes from casting ...
Geoff Heriot, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHILLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term whilly is used in the context of the following news items.
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Willy Kohan: “Es una realidad que tambalea el plan Kicillof”
​El periodista económico, Guillermo 'Whilly' Kohan, analizó hoy la economía argentina y afirmó que “es una realidad que tambalea el plan Kicillof”. «El Cronista, Jul 15»
2
House Committee Passes Bills to Delay TRID Enforcement, Revise …
Countrywide, WAMU and others including WallStreet were able to free whilly products and then execute a credit-default swap. The Glass-Steagall Act should ... «National Mortgage News, Jul 15»
3
Cada vez que habla el ministro de Economía, Axel Kicillof, sube el …
Habló Guillermo 'Whilly' Kohan y lo demolió en 3 minutos al ppibe cámpora Axel. El periodista económico, Guillermo 'Whilly' Kohan, analizó hoy la economía ... «Palermo Online, Jul 15»
4
Owner Boghossian Dies at 73
Boghossian and his sons, Paul H. and Chris Boghossian, made up Triple B. The stable has campaigned such stakes horses as Shamdinan and Whilly. «BloodHorse.com, Jul 15»
5
LYME: Viking boat among those to be launched by academy students
Other boats include a 22-foot Viking boat with solid oak centreline and square sail, an Iain Oughtred designed cold moulded “Whilly Tern”, and a traditional ... «View Online, May 15»
6
Fréquence 2 /serges WHILLY franchit un autre palier
Transfuge de la radio, la voix de l'agneby, la radio locale , en 2006, SERGES WHILLY s'est très vite mis au travail, petit a petit il a fini par gagner la confiance de ... «Abidjan Show.com, May 15»
7
Branco Cartoon – Radical Vocabulist
we whilly winkey. RT @ophidianpilot: Branco Cartoon – Radical Vocabulist #tcot ... @we whilly winkey. 20 Feb 2015. Taxpayer1234. RT @ophidianpilot: Branco ... «legal Insurrection, Feb 15»
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אמיתי או לא? הסלפי המסוכן בעולם An error occurred.
באותם רגעים האדרנלין כנראה השתלט עליו והוא החליט לרדת מהרכב ולהתקרב אף יותר – אבל באותו רגע נראה שהטורנדו (או Whilly whilly, בשפת המקומיים) נע במהירות לקראתו, והוא ... «mako, Aug 14»
9
Pocket Yacht Palooza: The next big thing in boats is small
... 12-foot SCAMP sailboat; Core Sound 17; 15-foot Whilly Boat; 12-foot Shellback dinghy; 11-foot double-ended rowboat; 18-foot Iain Oughtred-designed Eun ... «Port Townsend Leader, Jul 14»
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The Mark Duggan verdict brings in capital punishment by the back …
While I do not think its use should be whilly-nilly I think that if mass murderers (more than 4 victims), drug gangsters, terrorists and traitors were executed it would ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jan 14»

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