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English
Etymology 1
From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.
Pronunciation
Noun
delice (plural delices)
- (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From de- + lice.
Pronunciation
Verb
delice (third-person singular simple present delices, present participle delicing, simple past and past participle deliced)
- (transitive) To rid of lice.
Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دلیجه (delice),[1][2] from دلی (deli) or دلو (delu),[3] equivalent to deli (“crazy, mad, insane”) + -ce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈli.d͡ʒe/
- Hyphenation: de‧li‧ce
Adjective
delice
- Behaving excessively, a little crazy.
Adverb
delice
- insanely, madly
- Synonyms: delicesine, deli gibi, çılgınca
Noun
delice (definite accusative deliceyi, plural deliceler)
- A wild plant of the Poaceae family with poisonous seeds; Lolium temulentum, darnel, false wheat.
- An olive tree that is not grafted.
- (colloquial) A hawk or a sparrow hawk.
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلیجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 913
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلیجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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