English
Etymology
From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɪli/
- Rhymes: -ɪli
- Homophone: Philly
Noun
filly (plural fillies)
- A young female horse.
- Coordinate term: colt
- (dated) A young, attractive woman.
Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
1994 October, Susie Day, “Wake Up and Smell the Lubricant”, in Gay Community News, page 8:Betty Lou began to think of Bobby Jo. That feisty filly still brought up sexual connotations, even though the two had been going together for almost three weeks now.
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Translations
young female horse
- Albanian: mazore (sq) f
- Arabic: مُهْرَة f (muhra)
- Asturian: potra (ast) f
- Burmese: မြင်းမကလေး (my) (mrang:ma.ka.le:)
- Catalan: poltra (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小雌馬 / 小雌马 (xiǎo cí mǎ)
- Czech: kobylka (cs) f, klisnička f
- Dutch: merrieveulen n
- Esperanto: ĉevalidino
- Finnish: tammavarsa
- French: pouliche (fr) f
- Galician: poldra (gl) f, póldrega f
- German: Stutenfohlen n, Stutenfüllen n, Stutfohlen n, Stutfüllen n, weibliches Fohlen n, weibliches Füllen n
- Greek: φοραδίτσα f (foradítsa)
- Ancient: πῶλος f (pôlos)
- Hungarian: kancacsikó (hu)
- Ido: kavalyunino (io)
- Italian: puledra (it) f
- Japanese: 雌の子馬 (mesu no ko-uma)
- Macedonian: ждребица f (ždrebica)
- Malay: kuda betina muda
- Maltese: moħra f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hoppeføll n
- Plautdietsch: Kobbelfalm n
- Polish: klaczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: potra (pt) f, potranca (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਵਛੇਰੀ f (vacherī)
- Romanian: mânză (ro) f
- Russian: кобы́лка (ru) f (kobýlka), кобыли́ца (ru) f (kobylíca), жереби́ца f (žerebíca)
- Scottish Gaelic: cliobag f, làireach f, loth f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ждребица f, ждријебица f
- Roman: ždrebica (sh) f, ždrijebica f
- Slovene: žrebica (sl) f
- Spanish: potra f, potranca f
- Swedish: ungsto n, stoföl n
- Volapük: jijevodül (vo)
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