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.