Etymology

dillweed

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Today it means: Dill, an aromatic herb used in cooking and medicine; Anethum graveolens. Full definition →

Old English dili
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromdili“dill”
  2. English todaydillweed

Compound of dill + weed. From Old English dili (“dill”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.