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# dill

«dill» in Mova's school dictionary: **A herb with soft feathery leaves and a fresh taste, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dill, uncountable; a dill, dills in Australian slang)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A herb with soft feathery leaves and a fresh taste, used in cooking, especially with fish, potatoes and pickles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#m1)

2) (Australia, NZ, informal) A silly or foolish person; a mild, friendly insult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and gardening lessons dill is a herb grown from seeds; in food it flavours dill pickles and salmon; in Australian talk calling someone «a dill» is like calling them a twit; phrases: «dill pickle», «fresh dill», «you dill!».

### examples

- Mum sprinkled chopped dill on the potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x1)
- I love crunchy dill pickles in my burger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x2)
- We grew dill in a pot on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x3)
- Dill seeds smell a bit like aniseed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x4)
- (Australia) «You left your lunch on the bus, you dill!» laughed Jack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x5)
- (Australia) Don't be a dill, put your hat on in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x6)
- Grandma makes salmon with dill sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x7)
- The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/#x8)

### note

The herb is uncountable: some dill, not «a dill». The slang sense is countable (a dill) and mild, used among friends. A «dill pickle» is a cucumber pickled with dill.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.