as in girls
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood
she's still a filly, so she has plenty of time to decide what she wants to do in life
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Recent Examples of fillies
The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
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Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
And coupled with Bottle of Rouge’s upset victory Saturday in the Del Mar Debutante – Baffert’s 12th win in the fillies’ 2-year-old championship race – Baffert has now swept the juvenile titles two straight years and eight times since 1996.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
And coupled with Bottle of Rouge’s upset victory Saturday in the Del Mar Debutante – Baffert’s 12th win in the fillies’ 2-year-old championship race – Baffert has now swept the juvenile titles two straight years and eight times since 1996.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fillies
Noun
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Heather takes the primary, Meredith gets her bathtub, all without incident … the OG RHONY girls could never!—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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The young girls explained in the clip that they were told not to look at the results of their mom's at-home pregnancy test before the timer ran out.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses!—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Fillies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillies. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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