dilberry n.
1. (also dill-ball) a small piece of excrement or semen clinging to the hairs around the anus or the female pubic hair; usu. in pl.
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Dilberries. Small pieces of excrement adhering to the hairs near the fundament. | |
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues II 286/1: Dilberries [...] Faecal and seminal deposits in the hair of the anus and the female pudendum. | |
![]() | (con. 1892) in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 616: D is for dill-balls as big as your prick. | |
![]() | in Limerick (1953) 215: A whorehouse at 9 rue de Rennes / Had trouble in luring in me, / Till they got some fairies / With pretty dillberries, / And their clientele came back again. | |
![]() | Lowspeak. |
2. (also dillberry) a stupid, dull or obnoxious person.
![]() | Love at First Sight 191: dilberry, or whoever the Cap fits. Who cheated two Wives, and broke their Hearts, and was going at Seventy-five to cheat a third [ibid.] 218: Sir Dillberry Diddle, Sir Humkin Buz, and his two Daughters, will speak a Dialogue. | |
![]() | What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] All you need at altitude is for some dillberry to drop a cigarette butt in a bin full of paper towels. | ‘Racist Yes, Sexist Fine’ in|
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 61: dilberry/dill/dillbrain/dilly Stupid person. From the British dialect combination of ‘daft’ and ‘silly’, without necessarily retaining any of the C19 British meaning of ‘dilberry’ as excrement. ANZ mid C20. |
3. (also dilbury) a piece of nasal mucus dripping from the bottom of the nostril.
![]() | Digger Dialects 19: dilbury — A dewdrop. |
In compounds
the pubic hair.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. |
the anus.
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Spice Islands. [...] Stink-hole bay or dilberry creek. The fundament. |
the anus.
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. |