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jealouses

jealouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jealous.

jealouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jealouse.

Meaning of jealous

Verb

jealous (third-person singular simple present jealouses, present participle jealousing, simple past and past participle jealoused)

  1. (ambitransitive, slang) To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
    • If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.2005, Andrew Lansdown, The Dispossessed, page 11
  2. (transitive, Australian Aboriginal) To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.
    • […] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.2013, Thalia Anthony, Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment

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Questions about jealouses

What is jealouses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Jealouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jealous.

Words near jealouses in the dictionary

  1. jealous husbands problems
  2. jealous-like
  3. jealouse
  4. jealoused
  5. jealouser
  6. jealouses
  7. jealousest
  8. jealousie
  9. jealousies
  10. jealousing
  11. jealously

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