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Antonyms for sloe

Grammar : Adj
Spell : sloh
Phonetic Transcription : sloʊ


Definition of sloe

Origin :
  • fruit of the blackthorn, Old English slah (plural slan), from Proto-Germanic *slaikhwon (cf. Middle Dutch sleeu, Dutch slee, Old High German sleha, German Schlehe), from PIE *sleie- "blue, bluish, blue-black" (see livid).
  • The vowel has been influenced by that in the old plural form, which according to OED persisted into the 17c. Scottish slae preserves the older vowel. Sloe-eyed is attested from 1804; sloe gin first recorded 1878.
  • As in black : adj dark, inky
  • As in onyx : adj black
  • As in pitch-black : adj black
  • As in pitchy : adj black
Example sentences :
  • The effect of a couple of large glasses of sloe gin was quickly apparent.
  • Extract from : « Simon » by J. Storer Clouston
  • The entire plant is used for much the same purposes as the sloe.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 » by Various
  • The manufacture of sloe gin is as simple as that of cherry brandy.
  • Extract from : « Cakes & Ale » by Edward Spencer
  • It feeds on hawthorn chiefly, but sometimes on sloe, plum, etc.
  • Extract from : « The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series » by Richard South
  • Nature, in inventing the wild grape, has been as generous as in her gift of the sloe.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Butterfly » by Walter Besant
  • It feeds in April and May on hawthorn, sloe, crab, and apple.
  • Extract from : « The Moths of the British Isles, First Series » by Richard South
  • What hand had planted the rare exotic adjacent to the hawthorn and the sloe?
  • Extract from : « Heroines of the Crusades » by C. A. Bloss
  • The name signifies in Gaelic the church of the sloe or wild plum-tree.
  • Extract from : « Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland » by T. O. Russell
  • She flashed her teeth at him as she came up, sloe eyes flirting.
  • Extract from : « The Other Likeness » by James H. Schmitz
  • They can squeeze bordeaux out of the sloe, and draw champagne from an apple.
  • Extract from : « The Tatler, Volume 3 » by Various

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