dill


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dill1 (also dill weed)
noun an aromatic culinary and medicinal herb of the parsley family, with yellow flowers. [Anethum graveolens.]
– origin OE dile, dyle, of unknown origin.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dill2
noun Austral./NZ informal a naive or foolish person.
– origin 1940s: appar. a back-form. from dilly2.
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