| 词汇 | dilly |
| 词源 | dilly. In its meaning of “some outstanding thing or person,” dilly is first recorded in the early 1930s. But it was used as an adjective in America before then and probably has a long histo- ry, deriving either from the 17th-century English dilling, “dar- ling,” or from the first four letters of delightful. |
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