FILLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filly mean? 

• FILLY (noun)
  The noun FILLY has 1 sense:

1. a young female horse under the age of four

  Familiarity information: FILLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young female horse under the age of four

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("filly" is a kind of...):

female (an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa))

foal (a young horse)

 Context examples 

“The maid is like the young filly, which kicks heels and plunges for very lust of life. Give her time, dame, give her time.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the thought had hardly formed itself in my mind before he had dropped his serious vein, and was chatting away about some new silver-mounted harness which he intended to spring upon the Mall, and about the match for a thousand guineas which he meant to make between his filly Ethelberta and Lord Doncaster’s famous three-year-old Aurelius.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)