Meanings
sullow1
present singular third person sullows · participle present sullowing · participle past sullowed · past sullowed
sullow2
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo sully.
Origin
sullow · verb
- Old English*solgian“to soil, sully”
- Middle Englishsulien“to sully”
- Middle Englishsulwen
- Englishsullow
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.
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Full word history & related roots →sullow · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*selk-“to pull”
- Proto-Germanic*sulhs
- Old Englishsulh
- Middle Englishsolow
- Englishsullow
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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Rhymes with sullow
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sullow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sullow
“sullow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sullow. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sullow,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sullow.
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