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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English chil, chile, from Old English ?iele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *kaliz. Merged with Middle English chele, from Old English c?le (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *k?liz, *k?l?? (“coolness; coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Related to German Low German Köle, German Kühle, Danish køle, Swedish kyla, Icelandic kylur. Compare also Dutch kil (“chilly; frosty; frigid”). See also cool, cold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

chill (countable and uncountable, plural chills)

1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

4. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
5. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

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6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

Translations

Adjective

chill (comparative more chill, superlative most chill)

1. Moderately cold or chilly.
2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.

3. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

4. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

   Synonym: cool

5. (slang) Okay, not a problem.

Translations

Verb

chill (third-person singular simple present chills, present participle chilling, simple past and past participle chilled)

1. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

2. (intransitive) To become cold.

3. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
4. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
5. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.

6. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.

   Synonym: chill out

7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.

8. (transitive, figuratively) To discourage, depress.

Translations

Derived terms

References

• chill in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From ch- +? will, from ich + will.

Alternative forms

• ch'ill, 'chill

Contraction

chill

1. (West Country, obsolete) I will
   • 1588, anon. or William Byrd, "Though Amaryllis Daunce in Greene"

     Yet since their eyes make hart so sore, hey ho, chill love no more.

   Synonym: I'll

Irish

Noun

chill

1. Lenited form of cill.

Middle English

Etymology

See ch-.

Verb

chill

1. I will

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English chill.

Adjective

chill

1. (slang) cool

Verb

chill

1. imperative of chille

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

chill

1. Lenited form of cill.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st????/
• Rhymes: -????

Adjective

stinging (comparative more stinging, superlative most stinging)

1. Having the capacity to sting.

   stinging nettles

2. (figuratively) Precise and hurtful
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.

Derived terms

• stingingly

Verb

stinging

1. present participle of sting

Noun

stinging (plural stingings)

1. The act by which someone receives a sting.

   the stingings of scorpions

   stingings of remorse