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jalouse
verb (jalous, ing)
  1. (Scottish) To suspect.
  2. (context, misused by southern writers) To be jealous of.
    • 1885: when my two sisters (these two bitches, O Commander of the Faithful!) saw me by the side of my young lover they jaloused me on his account and were wroth and plotted mischief against me. " Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 18
Etymology: Scots Scots, jalouse, from jalouser.

     
 
  

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