{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈsɪli" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/silly.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/silly.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English seely, sēlī,1 from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli. Equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.\nThe semantic evolution is “lucky” → “innocent” → “naïve” → “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 209:This is the silliest stuffe, that euer I heard.\n1970, Graham Chapman & al., Monty Python's Flying Circus, I, 183:\nWell sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to obtain a Government grant to help me develop it.", "submean": [ "(of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large.\n1875 June 26, Saturday Review, 815/2:\nHe cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack." ] }, { "mean": "(chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed, particularly:", "submean": [ "Good; pious.\na. 1450, Seven Sages, line 1361:\nThe sylyman lay and herde,And hys wyf answerd.", "Holy.\n1650 in 1885, W. Cramond, Church of Rathven, 21:\n... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes." ] }, { "mean": "(now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly:\n1556 in 1880, William Henry Turner, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford... 1509–83, 246:\nThe fire raging upon the silly Carcase.\n1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language:Silly... in the same sense as E. poor is often used, denoting a state which excites compassion.", "submean": [ "(now literary) Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.\na. 1475, in 1925, Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the 14th & 15th Centuries, 109:\nThere is no best in þe word, I wene...That suffuris halfe so myche teneAs doth þe sylly wat.\na. 1513, William Dunbar, Poems, 247:\nIn the silly lambis skin He crap als far as he micht win.", "(now literary) Helpless, defenseless.\nscared silly\n1539, Richard Morison translating Juan Luis Vives, Introduction to Wysedome:\nWherfore Christe must soo moche the more instantelye be sought vpon, that he may vouchsafe to defende vs sylly wretches.\nc. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , part 1, 2nd edition, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Ah Shepheard, pity my diſtreſſed plight,(If as thou ſeem’ſt, thou art ſo meane a man)And ſeeke not to inrich thy followers,By lawleſſe rapine from a ſilly maide, \n1665, Thomas Manley translating Hugo Grotius, De Rebus Belgicis, 938:\nThere remained fresh Examples of their Barbarism against weak Sea-men, and silly Fisher-men.", "Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality.\na. 1500, Robert Henryson translating Aesop, \"Two Mice\":\nAne sillie scheill vnder ane erdfast stane\nc. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 93: A pettigreeOf threescore and two yeares a sillie time,To make prescription for a kingdomes worth.\n1907, Transactions of the Highland & Agricultural Society, 19, 172:\nIt is naturally very poor, ‘silly’ land.", "Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete).\n1567, John Maplet, A Greene Forest:\nHere we see that a smal sillie Bird knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.\n1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay, A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, xxxii, 596:\n leaueth neither Children nor kinsfolke behind him to vphold his sillie kingdome.\n1946 in 1971, Scottish National Dictionary, Vol. VIII, 234/3:\nThat'll never grow. It's ower silly.", "Sickly; feeble; infirm.\n1636, Alexander Montgomerie, The Cherrie & the Slae, line 1512:\nTo doe the thing we canTo please...This silly sickly man.\n1818, Walter Scott, \"Heart of Mid-Lothian\", v:\nIs there ony thing you would particularly fancy, as your health seems but silly?" ] }, { "mean": "(now rural UK, rare) Simple, plain, particularly:", "submean": [ "Rustic, homely.\n1570, John Foxe, Actes & Monumentes, Vol. II, 926/1:\nDauid had no more but a sylie slynge, and a few stones.", "(obsolete) Lowly, of humble station.\na. 1547, the Earl of Surrey translating Publius Virgilius Maro, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis, Book II:\nThe silly herdman all astonnied standes.\n1568, Alexander Scott, Poems, 27:\nSo luvaris lair no leid suld lak,A lord to lufe a silly lass." ] }, { "mean": "Mentally simple, foolish, particularly:", "submean": [ "(obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.\n1687, Archibald Lovell translating Jean de Thévenot, The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant, i, 2:\nFrom Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).", "Thoughtless, lacking judgment.\n1576, Abraham Fleming translating Sulpicius, A Panoplie of Epistles, 24:\nWee sillie soules, take the matter too too heauily.\n1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, iii, 252:\n‘Heaven help this silly fellow,’ murmured the perplexed locksmith.\n1972, George Lucas & al., American Graffiti, 8:\nSteve, don't be silly. I mean social intercourse.\n1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 3:\nFramed? Framed? Oh, grow up, Mattie. The truth is that everyone is sillier than you could possibly imagine they'd be. What a dickhead.", "(Scotland) Mentally retarded.\n1568, Christis Kirk on Grene:\nFow ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid bot scho of lufe wes sillie.\n1814, Walter Scott, Waverley, III, xvi, 237:\nDavie's no just like other folk... but he's no sae silly as folk tak him for.", "Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.\n1829 January 17, Lancaster Gazette:\nYou say you were knocked silly—was that so?\n1907, John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World, iii, 64:\nDrinking myself silly...\n1942, J. Chodorov & al., Junior Miss, ii, i, 113:\nWell, Judy, now that you've scared me silly, what's so important?\n1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2:\nI 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?" ] }, { "mean": "(cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.\n1862 July 4, Notts. Guardian:\nCarpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(now regional or colloquial) Sillily: in a silly manner.\n1731, Colley Cibber, Careless Husband, 7th ed., i, i, 21:\nIf you did but see how silly a Man fumbles for an Excuse, when he's a little asham'd of being in Love." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(colloquial) A silly person.\n1807 May, Scots Magazine, 366/1:\nWhile they, poor sillies, bid good night,O' love an' bogles eerie." }, { "mean": "(endearing, gently derogatory) A term of address.\n1918 September, St. Nicholas, 972/2:\n‘Come on, silly,’ said Nannie." }, { "mean": "(colloquial) A mistake." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }