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jalouse

/d͡ʒəˈluːz/

jalouse verb: to suspect.

Verb

jalouse (third-person singular simple present jalouses, present participle jalousing, simple past and past participle jaloused)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To suspect.
    • Now the mention of the Skerburnfoot brought back to him only the thought of Ailie, and not of the witch wife, her mother. So he jaloused no ill, for at the best he was slow in the uptake.
      […]
      'Ford!' cried John, in scorn. 'There'll be nae ford for you the nicht unless it was the ford o' the river...1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
  2. (archaic, transitive) To be jealous of.
    • When my two sisters (these two bitches, O Commander of the Faithful!) saw me by the side of my young lover they jaloused me on his account and were wroth and plotted mischief against me.1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 18

Forms of jalouse

third-person singular presentjalouses
present participlejalousing
past participlejaloused
pastjaloused

Origin of jalouse

From Scots jalouse, from Old French jalouser. The sense "to be jealous of" came about as a misunderstanding by southern writers, from the similarity to jealousy.

Words that rhyme with jalouse

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Questions about jalouse

What does jalouse mean?
Jalouse means to suspect.
What part of speech is jalouse?
Jalouse is a verb.
How do you pronounce jalouse?
Jalouse is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈluːz/.
What is the past tense of jalouse?
The past tense of jalouse is jaloused.

Words near jalouse in the dictionary

  1. jalopies
  2. jaloppies
  3. jaloppy
  4. jalopy
  5. Jalore
  6. jalouse
  7. jaloused
  8. jalouses
  9. jalousie
  10. jalousied
  11. jalousies

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