styll
adv/stɪl/
Etymology
Modern usage seems to have originated in Canadian slang, compare other modern respellings of i with y like whyte (which also coincides with an older spelling variant).
Definitions
Usually added to the end of a sentence to add emphasis.
- I’m no new here. So, don’t disrespect me for some new mans styll.
Obsolete spelling of still.
- ¶ So streyt that to scape col{us} had noo space ¶ This seyng Colus be styll wythin abode.
- The lady sate styll 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for styll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA