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jezebel
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Jezebel is the debut studio album by New Zealand musician, Jon Stevens . The album contained two number one singles and was released in February 1980. It peaked at number 7 on the New Zealand album chart and cemented Stevens’ position as New Zealand’s premier ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"impudent woman," 1550s, after Jezebel , the wicked Tyrean princess who married Ahab, king of Israel (Kings xxi:5-23), from Hebrew Izebhel , "a name of uncertain origin and meaning" [Klein].
Usage examples of jezebel.
Jezebel, his attentive mother, put aside the clothes and her workbasket and called the attention of her son.
Now, as his doll-baby lashes commenced to flutter like those of a windup Jezebel.
No sooner had the turkey entered a colored canyon in southeastern Idaho, however, a place where the sandstone appeared to be painted with lavender eye shadow and pomegranate lip balms, than the latent frankincense of Jezebel filled the turkey like an effluvial stuffing and .
Look what Santa Claus brought us and left on the doorstep, Uncle Doc,’ and Old Doc Hines said, ‘His name is Joseph,’ and they quit laughing and they looked at Old Doc Hines and the Jezebel said, ‘How do you know?
Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds on.
And of course, part of my calling is to show wicked, painted Jezebels the power and the glory.
I know over the years he's taken up with jezebels, thinking he can deceive me with his bald-faced lies.
However long he outlives me, he'll bear the stigma of the has-been cowboy hero who married Jezebel.
And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?