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gillie

/ˈɡɪli/

noun 2
verb 1
/ˈd͡ʒili/ noun 1
forms 3

noun2

(Scotland) A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.
(UK, Ireland) A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland.

verb1

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To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone).
- I had taken bigger fish on the Alta, while fishing as Tony Pulitzer's guest on the Jöraholmen farm, but never under circumstances as bizarre as the day I found myself being ghillied by a girl. — 1994

gillie

UK /ˈdʒɪli/US /ˈd͡ʒili/

noun1

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(Scotland) A gill of an alcoholic drink.
- Fareweel, my rhyme-composing billie! / Your native soil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flourish like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toast ye in my hindmost gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea! — 1786

forms

gillied · gillying · gillies

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