sillies

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Synonyms for sillies

noun fool

Word Origin & History

Old English gesælig "happy, fortuitous, prosperous" (related to sæl "happiness"), from Proto-Germanic *sæligas (cf. Old Norse sæll "happy," Old Saxon salig, Middle Dutch salich, Old High German salig, German selig "blessed, happy, blissful," Gothic sels "good, kindhearted"), from PIE *sele- "of good mood; to favor," from root *sel- (2) "happy, of good mood; to favor" (cf. Latin solari "to comfort," Greek hilaros "cheerful, gay, merry, joyous").

The word's considerable sense development moved from "happy" to "blessed" to "pious," to "innocent" (c.1200), to "harmless," to "pitiable" (late 13c.), "weak" (c.1300), to "feeble in mind, lacking in reason, foolish" (1570s). Further tendency toward "stunned, dazed as by a blow" (1886) in knocked silly, etc. Silly season in journalism slang is from 1861 (August and September, when newspapers compensate for a lack of hard news by filling up with trivial stories). Silly Putty trademark claims use from July 1949.

Example Sentences for sillies

This is more suitable for an introduction for "The Three Sillies."

So there was a whole lot of sillies bigger than the three sillies at home.

It is just this lot of flatterers and sillies that are ruining her.

All I know is that these lads held up my car the night of the Sillies.

So there was a whole lot of sillies bigger than them three sillies at home.

But the sillies went and propped up a milk-pan against the window.

"Jessie Macpherson says we're a set of sillies," volunteered Betty Scott.

That was going on while Davy and me snoozed away like a pair of sillies.

So there were a whole lot of sillies bigger than the three sillies at home.

Now what d'ye suppose the sillies are poking poles under there, for?