sallow
Plural: sallows
Noun
- any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
- A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
- A willow twig or branch.
Verb
Verb Forms: sallowed, sallowing, sallows
- To make something or someone sickly yellowish in color.
- cause to become sallow
- "The illness has sallowed her face"
- To become sallow.
- To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
Adjective Satellite
- unhealthy looking
Adj
- Yellowish.
- Of a sickly pale colour.
- Yellowish.
- Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
- Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
- Foul; murky; sickly.
Adjective
- Of a sickly, yellowish, or pale-brownish color.
Examples
- After staring at the Scrabble board for hours, his face had a distinct sallow hue.
- The bad lighting in the room seemed to sallow the tiles, making them hard to read.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English salowe, from Old English salu, from Proto-West Germanic *salu, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selH-.
See also Dutch zaluw, dialectal German sal; also Irish salach (“dirty”), Welsh halog, Latin salīva, Russian соло́вый (solóvyj, “cream-colored”), and - through Frankish - French sale.
Synonyms
sickly, goat willow
Scrabble Score: 9
sallow: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsallow: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sallow: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary