streel

noun, verb — 2 senses

streel

noun

/ˈstɹiːl/ · [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪi̯l]

Etymology From Irish straoill (“untidy person”).

1

A disreputable woman, a slut.

  • Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse she bought only a fortnight before like a rag on her back and bit of her petticoat hanging like a caricature.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

streel

verb

Etymology Compare stroll and streal.

1

Colloquial To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

  • a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

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