Streel

//stɹiːl// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A disreputable woman, a slut.

    "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."

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

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

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Irish straoill (“untidy person”).

Etymology 2

Compare stroll and streal.

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