Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pill
Pill
pill
n. 1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by the) colloq. a contraceptive pill. 2 an unpleasant or painful necessity; a humiliation (a bitter pill; must swallow the pill). 3 colloq. or joc. a ball, e.g. a football, a cannon-ball. Phrases and idioms sugar (or sweeten) the pill make an unpleasant necessity acceptable. Etymology: MDu., MLG pille prob. f. L pilula dimin. of pila ball
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I. verb Etymology: Middle English pilen, ~en, partly from Old English pilian to peel, partly from Anglo-French piler to rob Date: 12th century intransitive verb to come off in flakes or scales ; peel, transitive verb to subject to depredation or extortion, to peel or strip off, II. noun Etymology: Middle English pylle, from Anglo-French pile & Middle Dutch ~e, both ultimately from Latin pilula, from diminutive of pila ball Date: 14th century 1. a usually medicinal or dietary preparation in a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole, birth control ~, something repugnant or unpleasant that must be accepted or endured, something resembling a ~ in size or shape, a disagreeable or tiresome person, III. verb Date: 1736 transitive verb to dose with ~s, blackball, intransitive verb to become rough with or mat into little balls ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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