Streel

Pronunciation

• IPA: /striːl/

From Irish straoille ("untidy person").

Full definition of streel

Noun

1. 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.

Compare stroll and streal.

Verb

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

Anagrams

• Lester
• relets