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Dell

//dɛl// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Faribault County, Minnesota.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
Noun
  1. 1
    A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.

    "To this day they dwell In a lonely dell."

  2. 2
    A young woman; a wench. obsolete

    "Sweet doxies and dells"

  3. 3
    a small wooded hollow wordnet
  4. 4
    1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
  5. 5
    1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11: A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.; A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).

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