oeillade
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 8
/əːˈjɑːd/(UK)
Definition of oeillade
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(literary)A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
“I know your Lady do's not loue her Husband, / I am sure of that: and at her late being heere, / She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes / To Noble Edmund.”
“‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic.”
“But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from French œillade.
Words you can make from oeillade
95 playable · top: AEDILE (7 pts)
Best play aedile 7 points6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
12 words4-letter words
35 words- AIDE 5 pts
- DALE 5 pts
- DEAL 5 pts
- DEIL 5 pts
- DELE 5 pts
- DELI 5 pts
- DELL 5 pts
- DIAL 5 pts
- DIEL 5 pts
- DILL 5 pts
- DIOL 5 pts
- DOLE 5 pts
- DOLL 5 pts
- EIDE 5 pts
- IDEA 5 pts
- IDLE 5 pts
- IDOL 5 pts
- LADE 5 pts
- LAID 5 pts
- LEAD 5 pts
- LEDE 5 pts
- LIDO 5 pts
- LIED 5 pts
- LOAD 5 pts
- LODE 5 pts
- LOID 5 pts
- ODEA 5 pts
- OLDE 5 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
- ALOE 4 pts
- ILEA 4 pts
- LEAL 4 pts
- LILO 4 pts
- OLEA 4 pts
- OLLA 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
16 wordsHooks
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