jalouse
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
/d͡ʒəˈluːz/
Definition of jalouse
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (Scotland, transitive)To suspect.
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verb
- (Scotland, transitive)To suspect.
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(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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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.
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