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lil

adjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //lɪl//

A book.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of li'lAlternative form of li'l.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA book.

    [H]e'll have quite enough to do in writing his own lils, and telling the world how handsome and clever he was; and who can blame him? Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis — my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing.

Forms

plural
lils
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).