jalouse
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of jalouse
C19: from French jalouser to be jealous of
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“But it canna have been accident I could jalouse it had they worn their helms, but they were bonnetless. He must have known them.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
I daresay you can jalouse the rest, but I kept Lewis behind after the school skailed, and got a full confession out of him.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
Malgr� la mer jalouse et les r�cifs, Venez, portons comme des fugitifs, Loin de ce monde au souffle d�l�t�re.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
I jalouse, my Lord Monteagle, ye’re saying ae word for my Lord Northumberland and twa for yoursel’.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
I jalouse it's neither siller nor the Kirk o' Scotland that's fashing him.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
