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SILL
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English
English : patronymic from Sill.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’.English : from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin (see Sill).Irish (Galway) : Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Ó SÃoda (see Sheedy).Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish Seide or Seid.
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English
English : nickname for a person with a cheerful disposition, from Middle English seely ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’ (Old English sǣlig, from sǣl ‘happiness’, ‘good fortune’). The word was also occasionally used as a female personal name during the Middle Ages. The sense ‘pitiable’, which developed into modern English silly, is not attested before the 15th century.Altered form of German Seele, respelled to preserve the bisyllabic pronunciation of the German name.
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English : nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’. There is evidence of a female personal name Golla and it is possible that this also may have given rise to the surname.German and Swiss German : unflattering nickname from dialect goll ‘bullfinch’, in the sense ‘simpleton’; or perhaps a variant of Gollmann (see Goleman 2).
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English
English : patronymic from a pet form of Sill.
Boy/Male
Latin
Of the forest.
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English
English : from a medieval personal name, a short form of Silvester (see Silvester) or Silvanus (see Silvano).
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English
English : nickname for a meek person, from Middle English daffte ‘mild’, ‘gentle’, ‘meek’ (Old English gedæfte). It was not until the 15th century, toward the end of the main period of surname formation in England, that the word came to mean ‘stupid’, ‘silly’.
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English
English : variant of Selman.German (Sillmann) : possibly a variant of Sieler, or a topographic name for someone living on a ridge, from Low German süll, sill ‘sill’, ‘threshold’, ‘ramp’.
Boy/Male
British, English
From Sill's Farm
Girl/Female
Biblical
Exalting.
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English
English : variant spelling of Silley, a variant of Seeley. This is a frequent NH name.Americanized spelling of German Zille, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a bargee, from Middle High German zülle ‘barge’, mainly used in Saxony and the Berlin area.Americanized form of South German Killer, a variant of Kilian, or a habitational name from a place near Hechingen (Württemberg).
Biblical
exalting
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n.
The quality or state of being silly.
n.
The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.
n.
Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
n.
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
a.
Silly.
v. t.
To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
n.
A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
a.
Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
n.
A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
n. sing. & pl.
A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
a.
Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
v. t.
An old story; a silly tale.
n.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
adv.
In a silly manner; foolishly.
n.
Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
n.
A sill.
a.
Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.