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sullow.

To sully.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈsʌləʊ/
  1. To sully.

    transitive
Where this word 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.

noun/ˈsʌləʊ/
  1. A plough.

    dialectal · rare
Where this word 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”)).

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