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† dilli-ˈdarling Obs. rare. [First element app. identical with dilling.] A term of endearment: a darling. So dilli-ˈminion.[These terms translate F. dorelot and bedault, both of which Cotgr. renders ‘dilling’.] a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xiv. 114 As if I had been a..neat dillidarling Minion, like Adonis. Ibid. iii. xviii. 146 My dainty Fedle-darling, my gentiel Dilli-minion. |