noun
filly
FIH-lee
noun
1
A young female horse.
"The farmer was proud of his new filly, born just weeks earlier."
How to Use Filly
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA young female horse — the female counterpart to a colt.
Word Forms
fillies plural
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Etymology
From Old Norse fylja, related to the English word foal.