jillous

Updated: May 5, 2025

"Hark ye," says he, "my gossoon, doan't be led asthray by the nonsinse of that divil of a Bullwig. He's jillous of ye, my bhoy: that's the rale, undoubted thruth; and it's only to keep you out of litherary life that he's palavering you in this way.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush