geil
Meaning
- voluptuous, lusty
- horny, lusting, randy, sexually focused and/or aroused
- too fat/ fertile
- too abundantly growing, excessively luscious
- (slang) cool
- sexy, good looking, pretty
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɣɛi̯l/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gheil, from Old Dutch *geil, from Proto-West Germanic *gail, from Proto-Germanic *gailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos (“frothing, tempestuous, wanton”). Cognate to English gole, German geil. The slang meaning of "cool" was likely borrowed from German geil.
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