Definition of "dilly" [dil•ly]

• Slang One that is remarkable or extraordinary, as in size or quality: had a dilly of a fight. (noun)

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• "I think you mean it's a "dilly" of an article, rather than a "ditty" of an article."
• "I have no time to describe to you what this plan was except to say that it was a "dilly", but when I hear complaints that these very expensive Royal Commission reports are almost always pigeon-holed I ask myself what else could be done with the "Solution" proposed by the last Royal Commissioner to sit in judgment on Ontario's forests."
• "Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government."