▪ I. † peccadill Obs.
[a. F. peccadille (16th c., in early examples peccadillo, peccatile), ad. It. or Sp.: see below.]
= peccadillo.
1621 T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 61 The slipps and peccadills of their youth. 1675 Cotton Burlesque on B. 16 For so small a Peccadill To send a man up Holborn-hill [i.e. to Tyburn]. 1736 J. Serces Popery an Enemy to Script. 63 The Faults..are but peccadilles. |
▪ II. peccadill, -dilly, -dillo
see piccadill, etc.