styll
English
editEtymology
editModern usage seems to have originated in Canadian slang,[1] compare other modern respellings ofi withy likewhyte (which also coincides with an older spelling variant).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editstyll (notcomparable)
- (MTE,MLE,slang)Usually added to the end of a sentence to addemphasis.
- Obsolete spelling ofstill.
- 1500, anonymous author,The Assemble of Goddes[2]:
- ¶ So streyt that to scape col{us} had noo space ¶ This seyng Colus bestyll wythin abode.
- 1592, R.D.,Hypnerotomachia[3]:
- These beeing come ouer with an obscure and foggy close ayre, with many losses and a grieuous voyage, they beginne to remember what they haue past and lost: for the more that the compasse of the reuolucion, draweth neere to the discouerie of the Figure of the Center, the sooner they are passed ouer,styll shorter and shorter, and the more swyfter the course of the streame is into the deuouring swallow of the Center.
- 1806, Walter Scott,Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3)[4]:
- The lady satestyll in the blacke chayre, in her prayers to God, and to the vyrgyne Mary, humbly prayenge them, by theyr specyall grace, to send her husbande the victory, accordynge to the ryght.
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