English Explanatory Dictionary

sowl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
noun
  1. Archaic spelling of soul.
verb
  1. To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.
verb
  1. To soil or stain; to dirty.

Pronunciation

/saʊl/ /ˈsaʊəl/ /suːl/ /səʊl/ sōl /soʊl/ en-us-soul.ogg

Word forms

sowl sowls seawl sewl sool soul soule sow sowe sowel sowle sowli sowling sowled

Etymology

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 *sufl, from Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”). The word is cognate with Danish sul (“sowl”), Middle Dutch suvel, zuvel (Dutch zuivel (“dairy products”)), Middle Low German suvel, süvel, suffel (“sowl”), Old High German sufil, sufili, Old Norse sufl, Norwegian suvl, sovl, sul (“milk porridge; food eaten with bread, porridge or soup”), Saterland Frisian süfel (“dairy products”), Swedish sovel (“sowl”), West Frisian suvel (“dairy products”).

Synonyms

sullow sully assoil beclart bedaub bedirty imbrue (especially with blood) bedizen befile befilth befoul begrime beray beshit besmear besmirch besully bewray blacken blot blur clat contaminate darken defile dirten dirty elt file foil foul gunk gunk up inquinate scunge sling mud slotter slur smear smirch smudge smut smutch soil soss sowl spot stain tarnish uggle
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