filly - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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A horse and filly.

From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.

filly (plural fillies)

  1. A young female horse.
    Coordinate term: colt
  2. (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.

young female horse