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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Irish straoille (“untidy person”).
Noun
streel (plural streels)
- 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.
Etymology 2
Compare stroll and streal.
Verb
streel (third-person singular simple present streels, present participle streeling, simple past and past participle streeled)
- (colloquial) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
streel
- inflection of strelen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
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