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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Scots jalouse, from Old French jalouser.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Edwards: Tough for Clinton to 'make the math work' 2008

  • I sink she eez anozzer good writer who make you soooo jalouse.

    Zeez Feesh 2005

  • I sink she eez anozzer good writer who make you soooo jalouse.

    La Coquette: 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • "_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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

  • "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

  • I jalouse ye came roond in a wherry frae the toon, and it's droll I never saw ye land.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • 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

  • ` ` 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

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  • to suspect, or be suspicious

    December 27, 2008