streel

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/ˈstɹiːl/[ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪi̯l][ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪi̯l]

noun

A disreputable woman, a slut.

OriginIrish straoill →
Scrabble 6
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Meanings

streel1

nounstreel (plural streels)

plural streels

  1. A disreputable woman, a slut.
    1 more example

    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.

    1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

streel2

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

present singular third person streels · participle present streeling · participle past streeled · past streeled

  1. colloquialTo trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

    a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet

    1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Origin

streel · noun

  1. Irishstraoill“untidy person”
  2. Englishstreel

From Irish straoill (“untidy person”).

More words from Irish

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streel · verb

Compare stroll and streal.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with streel

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

streel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streel

MLA

“streel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “streel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streel.

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