streeln.2
/striːl/, U.S. /stril/, Irish English /sθriːl/ Chiefly Anglo-Irish.
A disreputable, untidy woman; a slut.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] > personal untidiness > woman
slut1402
malkin1586
mawks1596
feague1664
gad1756
frow1781
streel1842
ragbag1854
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman
queanOE
whorec1175
malkinc1275
wenchelc1300
ribalda1350
strumpeta1350
wench1362
filtha1375
parnelc1390
sinner14..
callet1415
slut?c1425
tickle-tailc1430
harlot?a1475
mignote1489
kittock?a1500
mulea1513
trulla1516
trully?1515
danta1529
miswoman1528
stewed whore1532
Tib1533
unchaghe1534
flag1535
Katy1535
jillet1541
yaud1545
housewife1546
trinkletc1550
whippet1550
Canace1551
filthy1553
Jezebel1558
kittyc1560
loonc1560
laced mutton1563
nymph1563
limmer1566
tomboy1566
Marian1567
mort1567
cockatrice1568
franion1571
blowze1573
rannell1573
rig1575
Kita1577
poplet1577
light-skirts1578
pucelle1578
harlotry1584
light o' lovea1586
driggle-draggle1588
wagtail1592
tub-tail1595
flirt-gill1597
minx1598
hilding1599
short-heels1599
bona-roba1600
flirt1600
Hiren1600
light-heels1602
roba1602
baggage1603
cousin1604
fricatrice1607
rumbelow1611
amorosa1615
jaya1616
open-taila1618
succubus1622
snaphancea1625
flap1631
buttered bun1638
puffkin1639
vizard1652
fallen woman1659
tomrigg1662
cunt1663
quaedama1670
jilt1672
crack1677
grass-girl1691
sporting girl1694
sportswoman1705
mobbed hood1707
brim1736
trollop1742
trub1746
demi-rep1749
gillyflower1757
lady of easy virtue1766
mot1773
chicken1782
gammerstang1788
buer1807
scarlet woman1816
blowen1819
fie-fie1820
shickster?1834
streel1842
charver1846
trolly1854
bad girl1855
amateur1862
anonyma1862
demi-virgin1864
pickup1871
chippy1885
wish-wife1886
tart1887
tartleta1890
flossy1893
fly girl1893
demi-mondaine1894
floozy1899
slattern1899
scrub1900
demi-vierge1908
cake1909
coozie1912
muff1914
tarty1918
yes-girl1920
radge1923
bike1945
puta1948
messer1951
cooze1955
jamette1965
skeezer1986
slutbag1987
chickenhead1988
ho1988
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xliii. 322 To marry a thrampin' sthreel like that—a great red-headed Jack.
1909 G. B. Shaw Press Cuttings 36 Not out o bed yet! Go and pull her out be the heels, the lazy sthreel.
1919 G. B. Shaw O'Flaherty V.C. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 185 I thought that covetious sthreal in there was a walking angel; and now if ever I marry at all I'll marry a Frenchwoman.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 344 She did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse..like a rag on her back and a bit of her petticoat hanging like a caricature.
1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xx. 188 That streel must have gone off with James Fullwood.
1961 ‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life i. 11 A streel of a girl with long lank fair hair arrived to look after myself and the brother.
1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now i. i. 8 She certainly kept the house in trim, even if she always looked a bit of a streel.
1978 D. Murphy Place Apart iv. 78 Jimmy wouldn't like a streel.
Derivatives
ˈstreelish adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
despisablea1340
villain1340
contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
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roinousa1425
poor1425
sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
disdainfula1547
contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
contemniblea1555
vile1560
sluttish1561
queer1567
scornful1570
scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
worthless1576
beggarly?1577
paltry1578
halfpenny1579
dog bolt1580
pitiful1582
sneaking1582
triobolar1585
wormisha1586
baddy1586
dudgeon1592
measled1596
packstaff1598
roguey1598
roguish1601
contemptful1608
grovelling1608
lightly1608
disdainable1611
purulent1611
snotty-nose1622
vilipendious1630
cittern-headed1638
wormy1640
pissabed1643
triobolary1644
disparageable1648
blue-bellied1652
unestimable1656
scullion1658
piteous1667
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
sneaking1703
ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] > of person, clothes, etc.
rowsey1565
slovenlya1568
sloven-like1569
uncompta1641
frowzy1710
blowzed1766
blowzyc1770
tousy1786
frowzled1808
sloven1821
hashy1825
tously1832
tousled1847
tuzzy-muzzy1847
unsleek1859
tousled-looking1860
slouchy1864
scraggly1869
frowzly1872
sploshy1881
schlumpy1956
streelish1974
1974 E. O'Brien in New Review Apr. 35/2 We saw this wild creature coming... Her costume was streelish.
ˈstreelishness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun]
undaftiness1555
slutterya1586
messiness1836
unneatness1836
untidiness1845
slip-sloppery1848
unkemptness1856
mussiness1869
untrimmedness1883
streelishness1936
1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xxii. 218 Belike she has picked up some of me brogue as well as some civilised habits, if she doesn't fall back into her streelishness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
streelv.
/striːl/, U.S. /stril/, Irish English /sθriːl/ Chiefly Anglo-Irish.
1. intransitive. To trail on the ground; to stream, float at length. Also of persons, to stroll, wander aimlessly.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly
roil?c1335
gada1500
stavera1500
vaguea1525
scoterlope1574
idle1599
haika1605
saunter1671
stravaig1801
palmer1805
streel1805
taver1808
traik1818
gander1822
gallivant1823
gilravage1825
project1828
daud1831
meander1831
to knock about1833
to kick about1839
to knock round1848
piroot1858
sashay1865
june1869
tootle1902
slop1907
beetle1919
stooge1941
swan1942
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly
raik?c1350
troll1377
spacea1425
jet1530
spacierc1550
snaffle1611
spatiate1626
saunter1671
stroll1680
trollopa1745
dangle1778
doiter1793
stroam1796
browse1803
soodle1821
potter1824
streek1827
streel1839
pasear1840
toddle1848
bummel1900
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > extend longitudinally [verb (intransitive)] > be long and trailing
trail1600
streel1847
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > trailingly
trikea1350
trilla1400
trailc1412
train1584
dragglec1594
tag1617
traipsea1777
streel1847
trape1875
1805 E. Cavanagh Let. 20 Aug. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 182 In walk'd a Grenadier of a Man..& after him streal'd in at his heels a Girl.
1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha i. 13 It's on your knees you ought to be this same night,..an' not grumblin' an' sthreelin' about the place.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xx. 176 She had earrings like chandeliers; you might have lighted 'em up, by Jove—and a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet.
1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls iii. 66 Everybody else thought that..they would have him streeling home again in a couple of days.
1943 J. Stuart Taps for Private Tussie iv. 57 It was after four o'clock when Aunt Vittie and Grandma came strealin up the Turnpike from town.
2. Hence as n.1, a straggling, untidy procession of persons.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession > straggling
streel1884
1884 D. Boucicault Shaughraun ii. ii. 30 I was thrying to get away from him..but he was at my heels all the way, and Tatthers at his heels. A nice sthreel we made along the road.
1971 T. Kilroy Big Chapel ix. 177 She never went anywhere without a streel of children.
Derivatives
ˈstreeler n. a disreputable, idle person.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
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rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
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stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
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shack-rag1612
thrum1612
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mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
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nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
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beggar1834
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shake1846
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sweep1853
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medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
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bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World ii. 48 An ugly young streeler with a murderous gob on him.
ˈstreeling adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly
roilinga1398
roitinga1450
gadding1533
vaguing1596
expatiation1640
strolling1717
gallivanting1826
streeling1841
traiking1894
stooging1944
swanning1951
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [adjective] > long > long and trailing
trail-side1513
streeling1841
overlength1941
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > trailingly
trailinga1400
swooping1581
dragglinga1599
training1645
streeling1841
traily1902
1841 Fraser's Mag. 24 216 No great, long, strealing tails of periods,—no staring peonies and hollyhocks of illustrations.
1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 713/2 The streeling lines of flapping wings and their rasping bronchial note accorded well.
1885 ‘L. Malet’ Col. Enderby's Wife iv. iv Across the lawn there drifted one of those streeling milk-white gossamers.
1927 E. Bowen Hotel xvi. 184 Miss Fitzgerald's party going forward in the leisurely and spread-out manner called in Ireland ‘strealing’.
1937 G. Frankau More of Us ii. 30 Remembered she her own pre-ducal streelings: Some boy she had filched from her own mother dear; When all the world that either knew was Ealing's?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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