dilly vs dropout

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

dropout

noun
  • One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. 

  • A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units. 

  • Someone who has opted out of conventional society. 

  • The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. 

  • Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course 

  • A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. 

  • Momentary loss of an electronic signal. 

How often have the words dilly and dropout occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )