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Jezebel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒɛzəˌbɛl/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('izével).

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) A woman who is evil, scheming, shameless, or immoral.
   • She’s an absolute Jezebel!
   • If ever the devil was born, without a pair of horns It was you, Jezebel, it was you 1951, “Jezebel”, Wayne Shanklin (lyrics), performed by Frankie Laine:
   • Red lips, hair, and fingernails I hear you're a mean old Jezebel 1971, Rod Stewart with Faces, Stay with Me:
   • I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. […] “The core of the matter is,” I said, twiddling the wheel to avoid a passing hen, “that in Roberta Wickham we are dealing with a girl of high and haughty spirit. […] And girls of high and haughty spirit need kidding along. This cannot be done by calling them carrot-topped Jezebels.” 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, “X&XI”, in Jeeves in the Offing:
2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Delias.

Forms

Deriveds

Jezebel sauce

Translations (7)

hu némber (an immoral woman) · lt ištvirkėlė (an immoral woman) · fi lutka (an immoral woman) · lt paleistuvė (an immoral woman) · mk ѓувендија (an immoral woman) · fr Agrippine (an immoral woman) · fi lunttu (an immoral woman)

Jezebel en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒɛzəˌbɛl/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('izével).

Meanings

1. The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings), and who incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.
   • “I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel, umbrage is the first thing I'd take. Who was Jezebel, by the way? The name seems familiar, but I can't place her.” “A character in the Old Testament, sir. A queen of Israel.” “Of course, yes. Be forgetting my own name next. Eaten by dogs, wasn't she?” “Yes, sir.” “Can't have been pleasant for her.” “No, sir.” “Still, that's the way the ball rolls.” 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing:

Translations (35)

it Izebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · hy Հեզաբել (Biblical character Jezebel) · fi Isebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · ru Иезавель (Biblical character Jezebel) · fr Jezebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · ca Jezabel (Biblical character Jezebel) · grc Ἰεζάβελ (Biblical character Jezebel) · es Jezabel (Biblical character Jezebel) · sv Isebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · xcl Յեզաբէլ (Biblical character Jezebel) · lt Jezebelė (Biblical character Jezebel) · he אִיזֶבֶל (Biblical character Jezebel) · ny Yezebeli (Biblical character Jezebel) · fi Iisebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · nl Izebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · ja イゼベル (Biblical character Jezebel) · sv Jisebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · swb Jezebeli (Biblical character Jezebel) · la Hiezabel (Biblical character Jezebel) · pt Jezebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · de Isebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · pt Jezabel (Biblical character Jezebel) · ar يَزَابِل (Biblical character Jezebel) · pl Izebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · bg Езавел (Biblical character Jezebel) · el Ιεζάβελ (Biblical character Jezebel) · no Jesabel (Biblical character Jezebel) · cmn 耶洗别 (Biblical character Jezebel) · cmn 依則貝耳 /依则贝耳 (Biblical character Jezebel) · chr ᏤᏏᏈᎵ (Biblical character Jezebel) · kk Езабел (Biblical character Jezebel) · sv Jezebel (Biblical character Jezebel) · hi ईज़ेबेल (Biblical character Jezebel) · it Gezabele (Biblical character Jezebel) · fr Jézabel (Biblical character Jezebel)

wikidata: Q721295