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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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Quotation dates: 1742, 1822-1897, 1952, 2003
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JEALOUS, adj. Also jailous (Bwk. 1880 T. Watts Poems 128), jeelous, chealous. Sc. usages: suspicious, apprehensive. Obs. in this sense in Eng. since the mid. 18th c. but still found in Eng. dials. See also Jalouse.
Sc. forms of Eng. jealous.Ork. 1952 R. T. Johnston Stenwick Days (1984) 100:
"Tae mak' trouble atween me an' Veronica, no doot. Fae iver shae cam' tae Stenwick thoo're been chealous o' her, an' thoo're been hoppin' I wid gie her up an' come back tae thee."Edb. 2003:
That lassie's awfy jeelous.
Sc. usages:Ayr. 1823 Galt R. Gilhaize I. x.:
The French guards . . . were instructed to be jealous of all untimeous travellers.Sc. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Letter v.:
Jealous as I am of such baseless fabrics.Slk. 1829 Hogg Shepherd's Cal. II. iii.:
As he picked a number of these [sc. herbs] out of the churchyard, the old wives . . . grew . . . jealous of him.Lth. 1849 M. Oliphant M. Maitland xvii.:
I'm jealous the Psalms o' David . . . wad be scarce the better for sic expounding.Kcb. 1897 T. Murray Frae the Heather 136:
It wasna sealed when it cam here, And has, I'm jealous in the matter, Been tampered with by some mean creature.
Hence jealousy, †jealousie, suspicion.Edb. 1742 Caled. Mercury (11 March):
Expressing a Jealousy of their being come honestly by.Ayr. 1822 Galt Provost xxvi.:
I had no jealousy or suspicion that a design so clearly and luminously useful would meet with any other opposition than, may be, some doubt as to the fiscal abilities of our income.Rnf. 1835 D. Webster Rhymes 134:
I couldna help some jealousy; Thought at the time that it might be Merely a hoax.Sc. 1893 Stevenson Catriona ii.:
It would never do if the Lord Advocate were to get any jealousy of our acquaintance.
