jool

jool (plural jools)

1. Alternative form of jhool

jool (plural jools)

1. Pronunciation spelling of jewel.
   • 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 91:

     MAD MONEY "stays put" in this pleated Acetate Crepe bag with "jools" on top and the right fixin's inside.

   • 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published September 1973, →ISBN, page 46:

     ‘All the top of your hill is full of tunnels packed with chests of gold and silver, and jools, by what I’ve heard.’ / ‘Then you’ve heard more than I can speak to,’ answered the Gaffer. ‘I know nothing about jools. […]

From jolen.

• IPA^(key): /joːl/

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• Hyphenation: jool
• Rhymes: -oːl

jool m or f (uncountable)

1. glee, revelry

• jolig

From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *bɲuəl (“pangolin”). Compare Proto-Katuic *-jool, whence Pacoh youl.

jool[1]

1. pangolin; scaly anteater