Talk:dill

RFV discussion: January–February 2018

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dill

Rfv-sense: To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

cited. A difficult one to search for, because of all the false positives. I eventually found a bunch by a search on "dill down", or "dills down" or "dilled down" or "dilling down" - so all my cites are followed by "down". I cannot say whether the verb should be "dill down", rather than "dill", it could just be an artifact of my search technique. Kiwima (talk) 21:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

"dill the pain" produces a couple of relevant hits in Google Search and a mention in a dialect dictionary in GBS. Some of the mentions seem to suggest it is Yorkshire (England) dialect. Mihia (talk) 23:10, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

... it occurred to me, also, that that one would need to be confident that examples are not typos for "dull", especially since "i" and "u" are adjacent on the keyboard. Mihia (talk) 00:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh yes. In searching, I found scannos for "still" and for "lull", as well as words with very different meanings. The "dill the pain" references are, unfortunately, mentions rather than uses, but do indicate that the definition belongs at "dill" and not at "dill down". Kiwima (talk) 04:04, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

"To" sooth has passed. "To lull to sleep" still needs citations. Kiwima (talk) 04:58, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

RFV-resolved - to sooth has passed, to lull to sleep has failed. Kiwima (talk) 21:37, 15 February 2018 (UTC)