sillyhood
English
Noun
sillyhood (plural sillyhoods)
- (UK, regional, obsolete) A caul (part of the amnion that encloses a baby's head at birth).
Etymology 2
silly + -hood
Noun
sillyhood (uncountable)
- silliness
- 1823, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review (issues 190-241, page 475)
- But for the author who, though successful and publicly known as to his own name, still produces his works under his first fictitious disguise, no excuse can be urged. It is certainly no other fault , but that of sillyhood and trifling […]
- 1823, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review (issues 190-241, page 475)