dilly vs wry

dilly

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

wry

adj
  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

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