izle

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Etymology

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From Old English ysel, ysle. Compare Old Norse usli.

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Noun

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izle (plural izles)

  1. (dialectal) A spark, an ember, a hot ash or cinder.
    • [1815, The Monthly Magazine, page 297:
      Izles, Dust or ashes from the fire. "The furniture is covered with izles."]
    • 1880 (original 1810?), Robert Hartley Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, page 142:
      I hied me hame to my father's ha',
      My dear auld mither to see;
      But she lay ' mang the black izles
      Wi' the death-tear in her ee.
    • 1922, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Krindlesyke, book II, "Bell Haggard", page 132:
      I've watched many fires / Since last I sat beside this hearth—good fires : / Coal, coke, and peat, but wood-fires in the main. / There's naught like izles for dancing flames and singing: / Birch kindles best, and has the liveliest flames : / []
    • 2010, Ben Tripp, Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      [] smoke rolled up into the atmosphere, candescent at the skyline where the red flames leaped up inside it, dancing with bright izles that flared and winked out.

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Verb

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izle

  1. second-person singular imperative of izlemek