dell

• enPR: dĕl, IPA^(key): /dɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”), related to *dalą (“valley, dale”).

dell (plural dells)

1. A valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.^[1]
   • 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50

     To this day they dwell

     In a lonely dell.

   • 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:

     In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.

• dale
• dingle
• vale
• valley
• See also Thesaurus:valley

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

dell (plural dells)

1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
   • 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:

     Sweet doxies and dells

• arch dell
• wapping dell

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).^[1]

dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)

1. (anatomy) tendon
2. sinew

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

• IPA^(key): /dɛll/

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)

1. shade, shadow

dell (verbal noun dellal)

1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

dell

1. Alternative form of delle

From Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”)

• IPA^(key): /dell/, [deɫ]

dell n

1. dell, vale

• English: dell

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dell”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɛw˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɛw˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɛw˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: đéo

dell

1. (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of đéo.

dell

1. Alternative form of del
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 17:

     dell, for till;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 17