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# frilly

«frilly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Decorated with frills, wavy strips of cloth or lace…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (frilly, frillier, frilliest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Decorated with frills, wavy strips of cloth or lace gathered into folds, as on a dress, curtain or sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#m1)

2) (informal) Fancy and with too much decoration, as in «a frilly speech». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes clothes such as frilly dresses, frilly socks or a frilly blouse, and fancy things like frilly lettuce or paper cases. In nature lessons, the «frilled lizard» of Australia spreads a frilly neck to scare enemies. In stories, frilly clothes can show a character is fancy or old-fashioned.

### examples

- She wore a frilly pink dress to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#x1)
- The baby has frilly white socks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#x2)
- The curtains had a frilly edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#x3)
- The frilled lizard opens its frilly collar to look scary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#x4)
- I like plain cupcakes, not frilly ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#x5)
- Lettuce leaves have frilly edges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/#x6)

### note

Comparative «frillier», superlative «frilliest». Noun «frill». «No frills» means plain and simple, with no extras.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frilly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frilly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.