trameal

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English tramel, from Anglo-Norman tramel. Literally a person who is as slow as the hopper of a mill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈmiːɫ/

Noun

trameal

1. A slothful person.

References

• 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 72