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
It is beautiful, and she was jalouse when I say I love my lady of wax.
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
"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
"He has a bit land o' his ain, sir: she made a gude marriage, it's thought, but I whiles jalouse he's no very gude to her."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
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