streel

• IPA^(key): /stɹiːl/

From Irish straoille (“untidy person”).

streel (plural streels)

1. A disreputable woman, a slut.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     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.

Compare stroll and streal.

streel (third-person singular simple present streels, present participle streeling, simple past and past participle streeled)

1. (colloquial) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

• Ertels, Ertles, Lester, re-lets, relets

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• Rhymes: -eːl

streel

1. first-person singular present indicative of strelen
2. imperative of strelen

• strele