jeel
jeel is the alternative form of jheel.
Meaning of jheel
Noun
jheel (plural jheels)
- A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
- In Spring, it is ablaze with roses; in Summer, the roses die and the hot winds blow from the hills; in Autumn, the white mists from the jhils cover the place as with water, and in Winter the frosts nip everything young and tender to earth-level.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 59
Noun
jeel
- Damage; harm.
- And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,
Because of coorse she navar reckoned
But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel ¹
She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel
On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !
[…]
¹ Damage.1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79 - An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,
But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16
- And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,
Forms of jeel
| plural | jeels |
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Origin of jeel
From Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.
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