(n.) A Welsh term which describes the happy reaction of finding the sheep in the pen when one did nothing to put them there.
Also, a slang expression describing the ability to get home even though dead drunk. First documentated use was by Caitlin Thomas in 1947.
2. An explanation to the police as to how the mysterious sheep ended up in your pen.
ReplyDeleteNote: To myrkl is to put sheep in a pen (or by extension, to put oneself safely at home).
ReplyDeleteAs to the prefix dil, its etymology could be from dil, as in to pickle, or a variant of del, as in to delight.