Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Alternative form of jhow (“a kind of tamarisk”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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noun
A premetric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
To knock, strike, bump.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To ring or toll (a bell).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, transitive
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verb
Go away; begone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, imperative, obsolete
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verb
To talk loudly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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History
Alteration of jowl (“to knock, strike, ring a bell”), with loss of final l.
Apparently from earlier *jowl, from Middle English chaulen, chavelen (“to jabber”). Compare jawl (“to talk loudly”).
