dilly in English
- dilly⇄dilly (1), noun, pl.-lies.
a small tree of the sapodilla family found in southern Florida and the West Indies, having a heavy, hard, dark-brown wood and bearing a small, globular fruit. - dilly⇄dilly (2), noun, pl.-lies.
(U.S. Slang.) a person or thing regarded as unique, outstanding, odd, eccentric, etc.; corker.
Ex. a dilly of an actor. The game was a dilly. I've heard some dillies in my day, but that's the payoff (New Yorker).