billyo
9.9
Follows the word like to show that something happens a lot or very strongly
- noun
- Archaic
:
muchísimo
- The storm raged on like billyo, shaking the entire town.
Examples
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She was running late and seemed to be rushing like billyo to catch her train.
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The children were laughing and playing like billyo in the park.
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Um, it's gonna curve like the billyo.
Synonyms
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9.9
A very large amount or degree that people use to show emphasis
is used mainly in one fixed colloquial phrase rather than many comparisons
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8.8
Very much or a lot in casual speech
expresses a much stronger, almost unimaginably large degree
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9.6
Large in size and often used in a joking way
focuses on extreme intensity rather than physical size or humor
9.9
A very large amount or degree
is the same meaning but usually written without a hyphen
9.9
A very large amount or very strong degree in informal British speech
is the same sense but not limited to British informal use
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Etymology
The word billyo is easy to remember if you think of billion, which is 'a huge number'. A helpful way to think of the phrase 'like billyo' is that something happens 'very' or 'a lot', so the word means 'to a great extent' or very strongly.