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- 1. a young female horse, especially one less than four years old.
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The meaning of FILLY is a young female horse usually of less than four years.
She had the grace and vigour of an unbroken filly at large upon the range. The success of the filly by fraudulent means led to the disqualification of the owner. (Definition of filly from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of filly. The organization has two of its 3-year-old filly pacers in the running for year-end honors which will be announced this week. One of my favorites was this cured halibut ($13), served with radishes, grapefruit and filly fronds of dill. He owned the first filly in history to win $1.5 million.
Filly definition: a young female horse.. See examples of FILLY used in a sentence.
A filly is a young female horse. The male equivalent of a filly is a "colt." In most places, a filly is not yet four years old, although sometimes a female horse younger than five is considered a filly.
fil·ly. (fĭl′ē) n. pl. fil·lies. 1. A young female horse, especially a racehorse less than five years old, or a young female of another equine species. 2. Informal A lively, high-spirited girl or young woman. [Middle English filli, from Old Norse fylja; see pau- in Indo-European roots .]
Definition of filly noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
