sowlth

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noun

A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.

OriginIrish samhailt →
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Meanings

nounsowlth (plural sowlths)

plural sowlths · alternative soulth

  1. artsA kind of spirit in Irish folklore.

    All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.

    2013, Norman A. Jeffares, W. B. Yeats
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    Tare and ages, what way would I be resting at all, he muttered thickly, and I tramping Dublin this while back with my share of songs and himself after me the like of a soulth or a bullawurrus?

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 392

Origin

  1. Irishsamhailt“likeness, apparition”
  2. Englishsowlth

From Irish samhailt (“likeness, apparition”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

slowth
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APA

sowlth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sowlth

MLA

“sowlth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sowlth. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sowlth,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sowlth.

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