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silly billy
noun
- a clownish person.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of silly billy1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
For the moment Silly Billy expected to find himself on the floor, but not an eyelash quivered.
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Silly Billy smelt that faulty grindstone; and I can't smell a rat a yard from my nose, it seems.
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"This is the photograph of her which you smashed up after the Silly Billy scandal," she said.
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Raikes says of him: "He was not a man of talent, as may be inferred from his nickname of Silly Billy."
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