sybo

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noun

A spring onion.

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Meanings

nounsybo (plural sybos or syboes)

plural sybos · plural syboes

  1. ScotlandA spring onion.

    the head's taen aff them, as clean as I wad bite it aff a sybo!" rejoined Cuddie.

    1851, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Waverley Novels: Old Mortality, page 772
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    A person at whom Inglis had a grudge, was owner of a beautiful garden and flower plot, in which he took great delight, priding himself on the beauty and variety of his flowers and he size and quality of his sybo and carrot beds.

    1863, Hawick Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society, page 98

    Yes; in romantic dew - mountain dew, my respected sir, that could give scent to a sybo.

    1868, John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, James Hogg, Noctes Ambrosian: Volume 1, page 86

Origin

From cibol. Compare Scottish Gaelic siobann, siobaid.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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