"Silly Billy" meaning in English

See Silly Billy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Silly Billies [plural], silly billy [alternative]
Etymology: Nickname of Prince William Frederick (1776–1834), Duke of Gloucester; also of William IV of the United Kingdom (1765–1837) Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Silly Billy}} Silly Billy (plural Silly Billies)
  1. An epithet used in mild teasing for a silly person, or one who has just done something of a foolish nature. Wikipedia link: Denis Healey, Mike Yarwood, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William IV of the United Kingdom Categories (topical): People Synonyms: silly goose

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Nickname of Prince William Frederick (1776–1834), Duke of Gloucester; also of William IV of the United Kingdom (1765–1837)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Silly Billies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "silly billy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Silly Billy"
      },
      "expansion": "Silly Billy (plural Silly Billies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English reduplications",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An epithet used in mild teasing for a silly person, or one who has just done something of a foolish nature."
      ],
      "id": "en-Silly_Billy-en-noun-mVriXwNN",
      "links": [
        [
          "epithet",
          "epithet#English"
        ],
        [
          "mild",
          "mild#English"
        ],
        [
          "teasing",
          "teasing#English"
        ],
        [
          "silly",
          "silly#English"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "silly goose"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Denis Healey",
        "Mike Yarwood",
        "Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh",
        "William IV of the United Kingdom"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Silly Billy"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Nickname of Prince William Frederick (1776–1834), Duke of Gloucester; also of William IV of the United Kingdom (1765–1837)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Silly Billies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "silly billy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Silly Billy"
      },
      "expansion": "Silly Billy (plural Silly Billies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English reduplications",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An epithet used in mild teasing for a silly person, or one who has just done something of a foolish nature."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "epithet",
          "epithet#English"
        ],
        [
          "mild",
          "mild#English"
        ],
        [
          "teasing",
          "teasing#English"
        ],
        [
          "silly",
          "silly#English"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Denis Healey",
        "Mike Yarwood",
        "Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh",
        "William IV of the United Kingdom"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "silly goose"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Silly Billy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Silly Billy meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (f2d86ce and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.