pill

A form of pidh from Proto-Albanian *pizda, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh₂ (“pudenda”). Cognate to Lithuanian pyzdà (“pudenda”) and Russian пизда (pizda, “pudenda”)


pill

Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.

1864, Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary:

(broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

Coordinate term: capsule

en:any tablet or caplet, thus excluding capsules

(strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill

1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:

Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:

(informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

"It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."

1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]

Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:

Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.

(slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

(slang) A comical or entertaining person.

One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.

1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True:

(textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.

"Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.

Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.

2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound:

(firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).

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(graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

pastilla anticoncepcional / contraceptiva / contraconceptiva

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* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.


pill

During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.

1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color:

(intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.

She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.

Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.

(transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.

(transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.

“I pilled him because he is a liar,” said Thackeray. “He calls himself 'ill' when he isn't.”

1907, Arthur Griffiths, Clubs and Clubmen, page 260:

(transitive, UK, slang, dated) To blackball (a potential club member).

en-verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

pills (present singular third-person)
pilling (participle present)
pilled (participle past)
pilled (past)


pill

(obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

[Jacob] pilled white streaks[…]in the rods.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 30:37:

So syr Lucan departed for he was greuously wounded in many places And so as he yede he sawe and herkened by the mone lyght how that pyllars and robbers were comen in to the felde To pylle and robbe many a ful noble knyghte of brochys and bedys of many a good rynge & of many a ryche Iewel / and who that were not deed al oute

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XXI:

The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

And there by her were poured forth at fill,
As if, this to adorne, she all the rest did pill

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

From Middle English pillen, pilen, from Old English pilian (“to peel”), from Latin pilō (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of peel.


pill

His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet,[…]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head. And afterwards he Burniſheth the ſame, and then his head is ſaid to be full ſommed.

1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the Termes of Venery”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 244:

Some be covered with crusts or hard pills, as the locust

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]

1682, A perfect school of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth:


pill

(now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from Old English pyll (“a pool, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *bl̥nos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.


pill

pilli (genitive)
pilli (partitive)
pill (nominative singular)
pillid (nominative plural)
pilli (genitive singular)
pillide (genitive plural)
pilli (partitive singular)
pille (partitive plural)
pillisid (partitive plural)
pilli (illative singular)
pillisse (illative singular)
pillidesse (illative plural)
pillesse (illative plural)
pillis (inessive singular)
pillides (inessive plural)
pilles (inessive plural)
pillist (elative singular)
pillidest (elative plural)
pillest (elative plural)
pillile (allative singular)
pillidele (allative plural)
pillele (allative plural)
pillil (adessive singular)
pillidel (adessive plural)
pillel (adessive plural)
pillilt (ablative singular)
pillidelt (ablative plural)
pillelt (ablative plural)
pilliks (singular translative)
pillideks (plural translative)
pilleks (plural translative)
pillini (singular terminative)
pillideni (plural terminative)
pillina (essive singular)
pillidena (essive plural)
pillita (abessive singular)
pillideta (abessive plural)
pilliga (comitative singular)
pillidega (comitative plural)


pill

head

pill (present analytic pilleann, future analytic pillfidh, verbal noun pilleadh, past participle pillte)

pilleann (analytic present)
pillfidh (analytic future)
pilleadh (noun-from-verb)
pillte (participle past)
pilleadh (noun-from-verb)
pillte (participle past)
pillim (first-person indicative present singular)
pilleann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
pillir (indicative present second-person singular)
pilleann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
pillimid (first-person indicative plural present)
pilleann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
pilleann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
pillid (indicative plural present third-person)
a philleann (indicative present relative)
a philleas (indicative present relative)
a bpilleann (indicative present relative)
pilltear (autonomous indicative present)
phill mé (first-person indicative past singular)
philleas (first-person indicative past singular)
phill tú (indicative past second-person singular)
phillis (indicative past second-person singular)
phill sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
philleamar (first-person indicative past plural)
phill muid (first-person indicative past plural)
phill sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
philleabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
phill siad (indicative past plural third-person)
philleadar (indicative past plural third-person)
a phill (indicative past relative)
ar phill (indicative past relative)
pilleadh (autonomous indicative past)
phillinn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
bpillinn‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
phillteá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
bpillteá‡‡ (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
philleadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
bpilleadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
phillimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
philleadh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
bpillimis‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
bpilleadh muid‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
philleadh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
bpilleadh sibh‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
phillidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
philleadh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
bpillidís‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
bpilleadh siad‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a philleadh (habitual indicative past relative)
a bpilleadh (habitual indicative past relative)
philltí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
bpilltí‡‡ (autonomous habitual indicative past)
pillfidh mé (first-person future indicative singular)
pillfead (first-person future indicative singular)
pillfidh tú (future indicative second-person singular)
pillfir (future indicative second-person singular)
pillfidh sé (future indicative singular third-person)
sí (future indicative singular third-person)
pillfimid (first-person future indicative plural)
pillfidh muid (first-person future indicative plural)
pillfidh sibh (future indicative plural second-person)
pillfidh siad (future indicative plural third-person)
pillfid (future indicative plural third-person)
a phillfidh (future indicative relative)
a phillfeas (future indicative relative)
a bpillfidh (future indicative relative)
pillfear (autonomous future indicative)
phillfinn (conditional first-person singular)
bpillfinn‡‡ (conditional first-person singular)
phillfeá (conditional second-person singular)
bpillfeá‡‡ (conditional second-person singular)
phillfeadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
bpillfeadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (conditional singular third-person)
phillfimis (conditional first-person plural)
phillfeadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
bpillfimis‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
bpillfeadh muid‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
phillfeadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
bpillfeadh sibh‡‡ (conditional plural second-person)
phillfidís (conditional plural third-person)
phillfeadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
bpillfidís‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
bpillfeadh siad‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
a phillfeadh (conditional relative)
a bpillfeadh (conditional relative)
phillfí (autonomous conditional)
bpillfí‡‡ (autonomous conditional)
go bpille mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go bpillead (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go bpille tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go bpillir (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go bpille sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go bpillimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go bpille muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go bpille sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go bpille siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go bpillid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go bpilltear (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá bpillinn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá bpillteá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá bpilleadh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá bpillimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá bpilleadh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá bpilleadh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá bpillidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá bpilleadh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá bpilltí (autonomous past subjunctive)
pillim (first-person imperative singular)
pill (imperative second-person singular)
pilleadh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
pillimis (first-person imperative plural)
pilligí (imperative plural second-person)
pillidh (imperative plural second-person)
pillidís (imperative plural third-person)
pilltear (autonomous imperative)

Through reinterpretation of /fʲ/ as the lenition of /pʲ/.


pill

inflection of peall:
vocative/genitive singular

inflection of peall:
nominative/dative plural

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


pill

Det är alltid sånt pill med gräsklipparen

Det är alltid sånt pill att sy fast knappar

Det är mycket pill nu

pill (indefinite nominative singular)
pills (genitive indefinite singular)
pillet (definite nominative singular)
pillets (definite genitive singular)