silly billy

For the moment Silly Billy expected to find himself on the floor, but not an eyelash quivered.

Silly Billy smelt that faulty grindstone; and I can't smell a rat a yard from my nose, it seems.

"This is the photograph of her which you smashed up after the Silly Billy scandal," she said.

Raikes says of him: "He was not a man of talent, as may be inferred from his nickname of Silly Billy."