"styll" meaning in English

See styll in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /stɪl/, [stɪɫ]
Etymology: Modern usage seems to have originated in Canadian slang, compare other modern respellings of i with y like whyte (which also coincides with an older spelling variant). Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} styll (not comparable)
  1. (MTE, MLE, slang) usually added to the end of a sentence to add emphasis Tags: Multicultural-London-English, not-comparable, slang
    Sense id: en-styll-en-adv-1WVMj7qG Categories (other): Multicultural London English, Multicultural Toronto English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11
  2. Obsolete spelling of still Tags: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete Alternative form of: still
    Sense id: en-styll-en-adv--S7IMECd

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2017 December 1, Roy Woods (lyrics and music), “Monday To Monday”, in Say Less",
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          "ref": "1500, anonymous author, The Assemble of Goddes",
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          "ref": "1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia",
          "text": "These beeing come ouer with an obscure and foggy close ayre, with many losses and a grieuous voyage, they beginne to remember what they haue past and lost: for the more that the compasse of the reuolucion, draweth neere to the discouerie of the Figure of the Center, the sooner they are passed ouer, styll shorter and shorter, and the more swyfter the course of the streame is into the deuouring swallow of the Center.",
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          "text": "The lady sate styll in the blacke chayre, in her prayers to God, and to the vyrgyne Mary, humbly prayenge them, by theyr specyall grace, to send her husbande the victory, accordynge to the ryght.",
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