Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Feelings of uneasiness. Often used with the:
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
willy . - noun colloquial, with "the" A feeling of
nervousness or fear.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun feelings of uneasiness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word willies.
Examples
-
Yes | No | Report from Cgull wrote 25 weeks 6 days ago what really gives me the willies is the sense that someting is stalking me when I'm in the forest.
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
-
Yes | No | Report from Cgull wrote 25 weeks 6 days ago what really gives me the willies is the sense that someting is stalking me when I'm in the forest.
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
-
Heck, I was creeped out by the cult following of Ron Paul this year, a politician I agree with a lot, so I certainly am going to get the willies from the love-fest for an admitted statist like Obama.
-
Heck, I was creeped out by the cult following of Ron Paul this year, a politician I agree with a lot, so I certainly am going to get the willies from the love-fest for an admitted statist like Obama.
-
I still get the willies from the ‘Masque of the Red Death’.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
-
Perhaps the willies were a further test for an apprentice pastry chef who had just passed Meringue Mushrooms 101 with flying colors.
Wrecks on Display Jen 2008
-
What I think gives people the willies is the idea of choice.
"If I do discriminate, it's that I only want healthy, intelligent people." Ann Althouse 2007
-
And I mean "big," because it's a big place with lots of possibilities, and one possibility that gives me the willies is the idea that we, humanity, already are looking outward for new places to inhabit as we approach the saturation point here on our home planet.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Aspen Times Weekly 2010
-
This type of incident will give any soldier or marine conducting operations with Iraqi security forces the "willies".
Archive 2008-01-01 Dave 2008
-
That picture gives me the "willies" I was attacked by a colony of ground wasps as a child in NH, probably the least fun I've ever had.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.