pill
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8.6
- noun
- /pɪl/
- Offensive
- She can be such a pill when she doesn't get her way.
- a real pill
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Watch on YouTubeAnd Ty Cobb was a real pill, like not an easy person.
- And Ty Cobb was a real pill, like not an easy person.
Examples
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Don went to a lot of trouble to get me this interview, and if I get that job it'll be a lot more money for all of us, so don't be a pill.
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- Yοu're such a pill, Fred.
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- She seems like a pill to me.
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You could call her a pill.
Blog text (17) -
You said the guy who teaches that course is a pill, right, so no use taking any chances.
Fiction book (1993) -
You are a bitter pill; probably your "friends" secretly all hate you, each other, and themselves.
Blog text (33) -
She spends her whole life being a total pill, and this happens.
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And Ty Cobb was a real pill, like not an easy person.
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Jeez, the last time I'd seen the little guy, I'd called him a pill.
Fiction book (2000) -
You're quite a pill.
Synonyms
32
2.1
A person who keeps bothering others
Idioms
- Informal
1
6.2
Make an unpleasant thing seem easier to accept by adding something pleasant
Compounds
- Specialized
34
2.7
A small medicine tablet with hormones a woman takes to prevent pregnancy
- Jargon
4
7.9
To make it hard for another company to take control by making the company's shares less attractive
- Specialized
2
3.4
A medicine that makes you pass more urine to remove extra water from your body
- Specialized
1
3.7
A pill taken by mouth that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant
- Jargon
1
8.2
A planned action by a company to make itself less attractive to a buyer even if it harms the company
How Annoying
Surface Forms
Etymology
The slang use of pill for 'an annoying or tedious person' likely grew from the idea of a bitter or hard-to-accept thing, so a 'pill' is someone you find difficult to deal with.