sillyton
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sillyton (plural sillytons)
- (obsolete) A silly person.
- 1684, Sir Roger L'Estrange, The Observator in Dialogue, volume 1, page 145:
- Why he gets Mony, Applause, Vindications, Apologys; but you must not take him for one of your Downright Sillytons, that, does not know whether he goes on his Head or his Heels.
- 1847, Lady Catharine Long, Sir Roland Ashton: A Tale of the Times, page 110:
- "Lady Constance must I believe that you like that intolerable sillyton?"