silly

silly

englanti

1. typerä, höpsö, hölmö, yksinkertainen, ajattelematon

Esimerkkejä silly sanan käytöstä:

a silly girl höpsö tyttö

Liittyvät sanat: foolish

Synonyymisanakirja: silly

silly

1. sekava, sekaisin, pyörryksissä oleva, pyörryksissä, puulla päähän lyöty, hiomaton, moukkamainen, säälittävä, naurettava, hupsu, puhekielen ilmaus, arkikielen ilmaus.

Katso synonyymisanakirja

Riimisanakirja: silly

silly rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. hylly, astiahylly, taajahylly, kirjahylly, nurkkahylly, maustehylly, varastohylly, lautashylly, liukuhylly, piippuhylly...

Katso riimisanakirja

Käännökset: silly

silly suomeksi

hupsu, tyhmeliini, sekava, pyörryksissä

• typerä, hölmö

• hölmö, ajattelematon, vastuuton, typerä

• hassu

• sekava

• yksinkertainen, hölmö

silly englanniksi

• puhekieltä blessed Blessed, particularly:

• good Good; pious.

• (ante) Seven Sages, line 1361:

The sylyman lay and herde,And his hys wife wyf answered answerd.

• holy Holy.

• 1650 in 1885, W. Cramond, Church of Rathven, 21:

... three thrie Saturdays Saturdayes before befor Lammas Lambas and three thrie after efter called the six silie Saturdays Saturdayes.

• puhekieltä pitiful Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly:

• 1556 in 1880, William Henry Turner, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford... 1509–83, 246:

The fire raging upon the silly carcass Carcase.

• 1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language:

Silly... in the same sense as English E. poor is often used, denoting a state which excites compassion.

• puhekieltä innocent Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.

• (ante) in 1925, Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the 14th & 15th Centuries, 109:

There is no beast best in the þe world word, I ween wene...That suffers suffuris halfe so much myche teneAs doth the þe sylly watMiddle English|wat.

• (ante) William Dunbar, Poems, 247:

In the silly lamb lamb's|is skin He creeped crap as als far as he might micht win.

• puhekieltä helpless Helpless, defenseless.

• 1539, Richard Morison translating Juan Luis Vives, Introduction to Wysedome:

wherefore Wherfore Christe must soo much moche the more instantly instantelye be sought upon vpon, that he may vouchsafe to defende us vs sylly wretches.

• 1665, Thomas Manley translating Hugo Grotius, De Rebus Belgicis, 938:

There remained fresh Examples of their Barbarism against weak Sea-men, and silly Fisher-men.

• insignificant Insignificant, worthless, puhekieltä especially with regard to land quality.

• (ante) Robert Henryson translating Aesop, "Two Mice":

a Ane sillie shell scheill under vnder ane earthfast erdfast stone stane

• 1595, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, The third Part of King Henry the Sixt, vvith the death of the Duke of Yorke, Act III, Scene iii, line 93:

...A pedigree pettigreeOf threescore and two years yeares a sillie time,To make prescription for a kingdom's|es worth.

• 1907, Transactions of the Highland & Agricultural Society, 19, 172:

It is naturally very poor, ‘silly’ land.

• weak Weak, frail; flimsy (qualifier).

• 1567, John Maplet, A Greene Forest:

Here we see that a small smal sillie Bird knows knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.

• 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay, A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, xxxii, 596:

Christ leaves leaueth neither Children nor kinsfolke behind him to uphold vphold his sillie kingdome.

• 1946 in 1971, Scottish National Dictionary, Vol. VIII, 234/3:

That'll never grow. It's over ower silly.

• sickly Sickly; feeble; infirm.

• 1636, Alexander Montgomerie, The Cherrie & the Slae, line 1512:

To doe the thing we canTo please...This silly sickly man.

• 1818, w:Walter Scott|Walter Scott, "Heart of Mid-Lothian", v:

Is there any ony thing you would particularly fancy, as your health seems but silly?

• puhekieltä simple Simple, plain, particularly:

• rustic Rustic, homely.

• 1570, John Foxe, Actes & Monumentes, Vol. II, 926/1:

David Dauid had no more but a sylie sling slynge, and a few stones.

• puhekieltä lowly Lowly, of humble station.

• (ante) the Earl of Surrey translating Publius Virgilius Maro, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis, Book II:

The silly herdman all astonished astonnied stands standes.

• 1568, Alexander Scott, Poems, 27:

So lovers luvaris lair no leid should suld lack lak,A lord to love lufe a silly lass.

• mentally Mentally simple, foolish, particularly:

• puhekieltä rustic Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.

• 1687, Archibald Lovell translating Jean de Thévenot, The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant, i, 2:

From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).

• thoughtless Thoughtless, lacking judgment.

• 1576, Abraham Fleming translating Sulpicius, A Panoplie of Epistles, 24:

we Wee sillie souls soules, take the matter too too heavily heauily.

• 1841, w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, w:Barnaby Rudge|Barnaby Rudge, iii, 252:

‘Heaven help this silly fellow,’ murmured the perplexed locksmith.

• 1972, w:George Lucas|George Lucas & al., w:American Graffiti|American Graffiti, 8:

Steve, don't be silly. I mean social intercourse.

• 1990, w:House of Cards (UK TV show)|House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 3:

Framed? Framed? Oh, grow up, Mattie. The truth is that everyone is sillier than you could possibly imagine they'd be. What a dickhead.

• puhekieltä mentally retarded|Mentally retarded.

• 1568, Christis Kirk on Grene:

Fow yellow ȝellow yellow ȝellow was wes her hir head heid but bot scho of lufe was wes sillie.

• 1814, w:Walter Scott|Walter Scott, w:Waverley Waverley, III, xvi, 237:

Davie's not no just like other folk... but he's not no so sae silly as folk take tak him for.

• stupefied Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.

• 1829 January 17, Lancaster Gazette:

You say you were knocked silly—was that so?

• 1907, w:John Millington Synge|John Millington Synge, w:Playboy of the Western World|Playboy of the Western World, iii, 64:

Drinking myself silly...

• 1942, J. Chodorov & al., Junior Miss, ii, i, 113:

Well, Judy, now that you've scared me silly, what's so important?

• 1990, w:House of Cards (UK TV show)|House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2:

I can kick this stuff any time I like. I tell you what. Get this week over, we'll go to a health farm for ten days. No drugs. No drink. And shag ourselves silly. How about that?

• laughable Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.

• 1600, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, w:Midsummer Nights Dream|Midsummer Night's Dream'', Act V, Scene i, line 209:

This is the silliest stuffe, that ever euer I heard.

• 1970, w:Graham Chapman|Graham Chapman & al., w:Monty Pythons Flying Circus|Monty Python's Flying Circus'', I, 183:

Well sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to obtain a Government grant to help me develop it.

• puhekieltä absurdly Absurdly large.

• 1875 June 26, Saturday Review, 815/2:

He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.

• puhekieltä very Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.

• 1862 July 4, Notts. Guardian:

Carpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward.

• puhekieltä sillily Sillily: in a silly manner.

• *1731, Colley Cibber, Careless Husband, 7th ed., i, i, 21:

If you did but see how silly a Man fumbles for an Excuse, when he's a little ashamed|asham'd of being in Love.

• puhekieltä The class of silly people collectively.

• *1560, William Baldwin, The funerals Funeralles of King Edward the sixth Sixt:

Repent you Leachers your dissolute lives,Your causeless causeles divorcing divorsing your true wedded wives,Your crafty alluring the silly to sinne.

• *1973 August 9, New Scientist, 350/2:

The mindless and the silly are always open to being conned into believing that some new bit of technological wizardry is beneficial.

• puhekieltä A silly person.

• *1807 May, Scots Magazine, 366/1:

While they, poor sillies, bid good night,O' love and|an' bogles eerie.

• puhekieltä A term of address.

• *1918 September, St. Nicholas, 972/2:

‘Come on, silly,’ said Nannie.

• puhekieltä A mistake.

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