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sull¹

  • /sʌl/
  • /sʊl/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌl

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Back-formation from sullen.

verb sulls · sulling · sulled

  1. intransitive Of an animal: to stop; to refuse to go on. The mesteño had stopped and sulled in the road with its forefeet spread and he sat looking after her.

sull²

Where it comes from

From Old English sulh (“plough”). Compare sullow and Old High German suohili (“little plough”).

noun sulls

  1. England, Western, dialectal A plough.

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@misc{sull_2026,
  title = {sull},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sull},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}