Obs. exc. dial. In 5–6 ioll, 7 jole, jaul, jawl. [Origin obscure.] intr. To talk noisily or angrily. Hence Jowling vbl. sb.
[c. 1440. York Myst., xxx. 235. O, what javellis are ye þat jappis with gollyng [read jollyng].]
a. 1500[?]. Image Ipocr., IV. 580. Thus the people seyne, With words true and playne How they iest and ioll.
1606. Wily Beguiled, in Hawkins, Eng. Drama, III. 317. Well, I’ll not stay with her: stay, quotha? To be yauld and jaul’d at. Ibid., 342. Her father o’ th’ other side, he yoles at her and joles at her.
1632. I. L., Womens Rights, 180. The poore woman can haue no quiet her husband keepes such a iawling. [In mod. s. w. dialect: see Eng. Dial. Dict.]
