dilly vs sly

dilly

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

sly

adj
  • Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. 

  • Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle 

  • Light or delicate; slight; thin. 

  • Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice 

adv
  • Slyly. 

How often have the words dilly and sly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )