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Noun: dill  dil
  1. Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
    - Anethum graveolens
     
  2. Aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning
    - dill weed
     
  3. [Austral, NZ, informal] A person who lacks good judgment
    - fool, sap [N. Amer, informal], muggins [Brit, informal], tomfool, jughead [N. Amer, informal], meathead [informal], diddy [Brit, informal], galah [Austral, informal], mampara [S.Africa, informal], juggins [Brit, informal], drongo [Austral, NZ, informal], charlie [Brit, informal], boofhead [Austral, informal], moegoe [S.Africa, informal], nit [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: dills

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, simple [archaic], simpleton

Encyclopedia: Dill, Germany