different between streel vs streal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?i?l/

Etymology 1

From Irish straoille (“untidy person”).

Noun

streel (plural streels)

1. A disreputable woman, a slut.

Etymology 2

Compare stroll and streal.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l

Verb

streel

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

Anagrams

• strele

English

Alternative forms

• strale (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English str?l (“arrow, shaft, dart, missile”), from Proto-West Germanic *str?lu (“arrow, ray, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *str?l- *str?l?- (“arrow, beam”). Cognate with West Frisian striel (“arrow, dart, shaft”), Dutch straal (“radius, ray, beam, stream”), German Strahl (“beam, ray, spurt”), Swedish stråle (“beam, ray”), Icelandic strjál (“arrow”), Lithuanian str?l? (“arrow, dart, jib”), Russian ?????? (strela, “arrow, dart”). See also streel.

Noun

streal (plural streals)

1. An arrow.
2. (Britain dialectal) The pupil of the eye.

Related terms

• streel

Anagrams

• Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, strale, talers, tarsel, tralse