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Synonyms & Antonyms of dilly
something very good of its kind
- came up with a dilly of an idea to get the fledgling company off the ground
Synonyms for dilly
- beaut,
- beauty,
- bee's knees,
- cat's meow,
- corker,
- crackerjack
- (also crackajack),
- daisy,
- dandy,
- doozy
- (or doozie also doozer),
- dream,
- honey,
- hot stuff,
- humdinger,
- hummer,
- jim-dandy,
- knockout,
- lollapalooza,
- lulu
- [slang],
- nifty,
- peach,
- pip,
- pippin,
- ripper,
- ripsnorter,
- snorter,
- sockdolager
- (or sockdologer),
- standout,
- sweetheart
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“Dilly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilly. Accessed 5 Aug. 2020.
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The first known use of dilly was in 1935
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