delice

See also: délice and dělíce

English

Etymology 1

From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

delice (plural delices)

1. (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]

Derived terms

• flower delice

Etymology 2

From de- +‎ lice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːˈlaɪs/

Verb

delice (third-person singular simple present delices, present participle delicing, simple past and past participle deliced)

1. (transitive) To rid of lice.

   Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.

Anagrams

• ceiled, cieled, decile

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دلیجه (delice), from دلی (deli) or دلو (delu), equivalent to deli (“crazy, mad, insane”) +‎ -ce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈli.d͡ʒe/
• Hyphenation: de‧li‧ce

Adjective

delice

1. Behaving excessively, a little crazy.

Adverb

delice

1. insanely, madly

   Synonyms: delicesine, deli gibi, çılgınca

Noun

delice (definite accusative deliceyi, plural deliceler)

1. A wild plant of the Poaceae family with poisonous seeds; Lolium temulentum, darnel, false wheat.
2. An olive tree that is not grafted.
3. (colloquial) A hawk or a sparrow hawk.

Related terms

• delidolu
• delikanlı
• delilik
• delirmek
• dellenmek

 

Further reading

• “delice”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “delice”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1139