choule

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English choule, from Old English ċeafl, from Proto-West Germanic *kafl. Cognate with Scots chowl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃəʊl/ (spelled chowl)[1]

Noun

choule (plural choulès)

  1. cheek[2]

References

  1. ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎[1], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 155
  2. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30
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