billy
noun
- cookware in the form of a metal bucket and used for boiling water over a campfire
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪli/
name
Etymology: Diminutive and pet-form; from Bill + -y.
- A diminutive of the male given name William.
““By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.”
“Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.”
- The B-25 twin-engine bomber aircraft used during World War Two, commonly called the "B-25 Mitchell" in honor of U.S. Army General William "Billy" Mitchell.
“Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead ….”
noun
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”), perhaps originally from the name Billy, a diminutive of William. The condom sense from the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy, referring in turn to Billy Boy, a German brand of condoms.
- A highwayman's club, billy club.
- A slubbing or roving machine.
“[…]at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.””
“On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.”
- A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
“Let's get the billy and cook some beans.”
“We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?”
- A bong for smoking marijuana.
- A condom.