jalouse
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of jalouse
C19: from French jalouser to be jealous of
Example Sentences
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“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
His wife is a proud kind o' body, and she said naething to the neebors, and I jalouse they had a sair pinching time on't.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
I jalouse it's neither siller nor the Kirk o' Scotland that's fashing him.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"Bit, de'il tak't, wha' gar'd ye jalouse A was a Scoatsman?"
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
"It micht be Edinburgh or Glesgie, but a' began tae jalouse England aifter hearin' her hannel Clockie, sae a' watchit fur a word tae try her tongue."
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
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