Other forms: dills
Dill is a feathery herb that goes with fish and pickles. Fresh dill, chopped dill, dill pickles.
The leaf and the seed taste quite different and are used differently — the leaf is delicate and added late, and the seed is stronger and goes into the pickling jar. It is central to Scandinavian and Eastern European cooking. In Australian slang a dill is a fool.
1noundillA feathery herb used with fish and pickles.
“Sprinkle chopped dill over the salmon before serving.”
dill is a herb.
Old English dile names the plant, from a Germanic root of uncertain and probably pre-Indo-European origin. The word has stayed almost unchanged for a thousand years.
Proto-Germanic
*deliz
Old English
dile — dill, anise
Middle English
dile
English, today
dill
From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic deliz, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European qfa-sub -. Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA