filly
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A young female horse under four years old
- noun
- /ˈfɪli/
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potra
- As the crowd cheered, the filly galloped gracefully across the finish line.
- colts and fillies
- year-old filly
- 3-year-old filly
Examples
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The trainer praised the young filly for her impressive speed on the track.
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You're one pretty little filly.
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I was standing next to Charlie, watching the filly being led around in a circle.
Fiction book (1990) -
A brilliant stretch run by the great filly.
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Feast your eyes on this filly.
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My money's on the filly to win.
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I had fifty on Bedlington's filly, and she ran a hell of a race.
Fiction book (1990) -
Beatific, the filly stretching out in the ninth, had drawn the outside post at a mile.
Fiction book (1990) -
Cunningham's filly ran valiantly, clipping the lead down to a neck by the first turn.
Fiction book (1995) -
Kelsey amused herself watching a woman teetering on ice-pick heels leading a filly around the walking ring.
Fiction book (1995)
How Fertile
Surface Forms
Etymology
Filly comes from an old word for 'daughter', Latin filia. So a filly is like a 'daughter' horse, a young female horse.