deli

1954. Clipping of delicatessen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛli/

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• Homophone: Delhi
• Rhymes: -ɛli

deli (plural delis)

1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.

   Delis usually offer a broader, fresher menu than fast food chains.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

• Diel, IDLE, Idle, diel, eild, idle, leid, lied

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛli]

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• Hyphenation: de‧li

deli (comparative delibb, superlative legdelibb)

1. (archaic) stalwart, athletic (figure), well-built (person)

deli

1. first-person singular preterite of delir

From Old Turkic telü, from Proto-Turkic *tälig, *dẹ̄l(b)ü- (“mad, stupid”).

• IPA^(key): /dɛli/

deli (definite accusative deliyi, plural deliler)

1. mad, insane

deli

1. accusative singular of del

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːli/, /ˈdɛli/

deli

1. second-person singular present indicative/future of dal

deli

1. Soft mutation of teli.