cheel

See also: chéel

English

Etymology

See obsolete sense of child, meaning "girl".

Noun

cheel (plural cheels)

  1. (Cornwall, archaic) A girl.
    • 1914, Eden Phillpotts, The Judge's Chair, page 155:
      […] boy or a cheel, faither?"
      "A boy — a very nice little boy, and mother never better."

Yucatec Maya

Noun

cheel (plural cheeloʼob)

  1. rainbow
  2. obsolete spelling of chéel
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