Meaning & use
Dilly
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Something or someone remarkable, striking, or unusual, often used with mild irony.
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That last storm was a real dilly.
He told a dilly of a story about his road trip.
A note on using this word
Popularized in American English partly through the phrase 'a dilly of a pickle' from mid-20th-century advertising.
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