† dilli-ˈdarling Obs. rare.
[First element app. identical with dilling.]
A term of endearment: a darling. So dilli-ˈminion.
[These terms translate F. dorelot and bedault, both of which Cotgr. renders ‘dilling’.]
| a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. xiv. 114 As if I had been a..neat dillidarling Minion, like Adonis. Ibid. iii. xviii. 146 My dainty Fedle-darling, my gentiel Dilli-minion. |