sowl
Plural: sowls
Noun
- A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
- Archaic spelling of soul.
Verb
- To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.
- To soil or stain; to dirty.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sowel, souel, suvel (“food eaten with bread; food in general”), from Old English sufel, sufol (“anything (especially relish) eaten with bread; sowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *sufl, from Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”). The word is cognate with Danish sul (“sowl”), Middle Dutch suvel, zuvel (Dutch zuivel (“dairy products”)), Middle Low German suvel, süvel, suffel (“sowl”), Old High German sufil, sufili, Old Norse sufl, Norwegian suvl, sovl, sul (“milk porridge; food eaten with bread, porridge or soup”), Saterland Frisian süfel (“dairy products”), Swedish sovel (“sowl”), West Frisian suvel (“dairy products”).
Scrabble Score: 7
sowl: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionarysowl: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
sowl: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary