Mell vs Gell - What's the difference?
mell | gell |
(archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
*c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":
*:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,
(obsolete) honey
* Warner
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* 1906 , , Chapter 4: "The engine-burglar":
(a leech)
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As nouns the difference between mell and gell
is that mell is discourse; conversation while gell is eye dialect of lang=en.As a verb mell
is to speak; converse; tell; say.mell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) melen, .Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).Verb
(en verb)- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
Etymology 3
See mellifluous.Noun
(-)- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.
gell
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You're a naughty little gell , that's what you are," said the fireman, and the engine-driver said:--
- "Daring little piece, I call her," but they made her sit down on an iron seat in the cab and told her to stop crying and tell them what she meant by it.
