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sullow¹

  • /ˈsʌləʊ/

Rhymes with -ʌləʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English sulwen, solwen, solewen, variant of Middle English sulien (“to sully”), or representing an unrecorded Old English *solgian (“to soil, sully”), related to Old High German solagōn (“to soil, sully, make dirty”). More at sully.

verb sullows · sullowing · sullowed

  1. transitive To sully.

    Similar: befoul, defile, sowl, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime

sullow²

  • /ˈsʌləʊ/

Rhymes with -ʌləʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English solow, from Old English sulh, from Proto-Germanic *sulhs, from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare Latin sulcus (“furrow”), Tocharian B sälk (“to pull out”), Ancient Greek ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”), ὁλκός (holkós, “draft”), Albanian hulli (“furrow”), heq (“take away, drag”) dialectal helk, Old Armenian հեղգ (hełg, “slow-going, lagging”)).

noun sullows · sull · sowl · zool

  1. dialectal, rare A plough.

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"sullow." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sullow.

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@misc{sullow_2026,
  title = {sullow},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sullow},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}