streel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɹiːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːl

Etymology 1

From Irish straoille (“untidy person”).

Noun

streel (plural streels)

1. A disreputable woman, a slut.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse she bought only a fortnight before like a rag on her back and bit of her petticoat hanging like a caricature.

Etymology 2

Compare stroll and streal.

Verb

streel (third-person singular simple present streels, present participle streeling, simple past and past participle streeled)

1. (colloquial) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet

Anagrams

• Elster, Ertels, relets, Selter, Lester, re-lets, Ertles

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːl

Verb

streel

1. inflection of strelen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• strele