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dinner pill

dinner pill noun: a pill to aid the digestion.

Noun

dinner pill (plural dinner pills)

  1. (dated) A pill to aid the digestion.
    • Suggest a dinner-pill or a seidlitz powder, and his face is convulsed with a fanatical pharmacophobia!1858 May 8, John Addington Symonds, “On Headache”, Lecture III of the Gulstonian Lectures for 1858 at the Royal College of Physicians, printed in The Medical Times and Gazette, John Churchill and...

Forms of dinner pill

pluraldinner pills

Questions about dinner pill

What does dinner pill mean?
Dinner pill means a pill to aid the digestion.
What part of speech is dinner pill?
Dinner pill is a noun.
What is the plural of dinner pill?
The plural of dinner pill is dinner pills.

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