Streel

n.

Heard in Cork, Dublin and Waterford

To reprimand or tear a strip off someone.

I'll feckin streel ya

Posh English

I shall deliver you a most ferocious reprimand.

Same phrase, other counties

• Dublin
• Waterford

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