Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal (Scotch) form of
jealous .
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- verb Scotland To
suspect . - verb misused by southern writers To be
jealous of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The world is ready for Obama. go for it. end for the stupid en jalouse people, A dem. is A dem, and not A rep. if obama wins, he hat more fans than Hillary. shame on you. sorry for the language, i m 62 jears old and learnet no english.
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I sink she eez anozzer good writer who make you soooo jalouse.
Zeez Feesh 2005
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I sink she eez anozzer good writer who make you soooo jalouse.
La Coquette: 2005
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I am, like other persons, jalouse de ma réputation; and it was difficult to suffer with patience the banishment which was invoked by you, because chiefly for your good, and for an indiscretion to which I was excited by motives the most pure and laudable.
Uncle Silas 2003
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From him I learnt that dear H. has been engaged on Military Business of Importance by no less a Personage than HM The Queen of Madagaskar - and I jalouse that my darling very cleverly offered them his Services in exchange for our reception here.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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"_Petite jalouse! rassure-toi_," he replied, with a look and manner into which, with that mobile force which was peculiar to him, he threw the most tender and passionate devotion.
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"There's plenty of time for that, I jalouse," said Doom, smiling somewhat guiltily, and he showed his guest to a room in the turret.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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I jalouse ye came roond in a wherry frae the toon, and it's droll I never saw ye land.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Quant à la société en elle-même, on peut prévoir que ce soin qu'elle met à éprouver de l'émoi par l'art, devenant cause à son tour, y rendra la soif de ce plaisir de plus en plus intense, l'application à la satisfaire de plus en plus jalouse et plus perfectionnée.
Imperfect Critics Thomas Stearns 1920
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` ` Nearer than ye thought, '' was MacGregor's reply; ` ` but he seemed rather in some shape to jalouse your speaking to the young leddy; and so you see '' ------
Rob Roy 1887
garyth123 commented on the word jalouse
to suspect, or be suspicious
December 27, 2008