See Also: poor-willie(medicine)
willie(dictionary)
WILLIE INTERNATIONAL(finance)
Simms, Willie(encyclopedia)
Willie (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Mosconi, Willie(encyclopedia)
Mays, Willie(dictionary)
Wee Willie Winkie(dictionary)
Hoppe, Willie(encyclopedia)
Dixon, Willie(encyclopedia)

true-love (iou) and poor-willie (medicine)


true-love (iou)



true-love noun. OE.
[from TRUE adjective + LOVE noun.]
(Usu. true love.) Faithful love. OE.
The plant herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, whose whorl of four leaves, with a single flower in the middle, suggests a true-love knot. ME.
A faithful lover; a sweetheart. LME.
An ornament or design symbolizing true love; esp. a true-love knot. LME-L16.
Comb.: true-love knot a kind of knot usu. with interlacing bows on each side symbolizing true love; a design in the shape of such a knot.
true lover noun phr. a true-love; (now rare) a person with a sincere regard for another;
true lover's knot = true-love knot above: LME.

poor-willie (medicine)


poor-willie
<zoology> The bar-tailed godwit.

Origin: So called in imitation of its note.

Source: Websters Dictionary