dilly vs strange bird

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

strange bird

noun
  • An unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics. 

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