Dilly

Origin of: Dilly

Dilly

In the late 18th/early 19th century, a dilly was a stagecoach. In US slang from c. 1935, dilly was a shortening of delightful and is still used in this way in North America. In British slang, however, it means touched, mad or silly, and probably evolved from rhyming with silly during the early 20th century. See Dill.