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Sowl

//saʊl//

Definitions

1
A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
Good lorjus days, whot whofo times ar' theese! / Pot-baws ar scant, an dear is seawl an cheese!
2
Archaic spelling of soul.

1
To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.
Hee'l go he ſayes, and ſole the Porter of Rome Gates by th'ears. He will mowe all downe before him, and leaue his paſſage poul'd.
2
To soil or stain; to dirty.

Word Origin

From Middle English sowel, souel, suvel (“food eaten with bread; food in general”), from Old English sufel, sufol (“anything (especially relish) eaten with bread; sowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *suf...

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Sowl

//saʊl//

Definitions

nounsowls

1
A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
Good lorjus days, whot whofo times ar' theese! / Pot-baws ar scant, an dear is seawl an cheese!
2
Archaic spelling of soul.

verbsowls · sowling · sowled

1
To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.
Hee'l go he ſayes, and ſole the Porter of Rome Gates by th'ears. He will mowe all downe before him, and leaue his paſſage poul'd.
2
To soil or stain; to dirty.

Word Origin

From Middle English sowel, souel, suvel (“food eaten with bread; food in general”), from Old English sufel, sufol (“anything (especially relish) eaten with bread; sowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *suf...

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