sloe

as inblack
as inonyx
as inpitch-black
as inpitchy

Synonyms for sloe

adj dark, inky

Antonyms for sloe

Word Origin & History

fruit of the blackthorn, Old English slah (plural slan), from Proto-Germanic *slaikhwon (cf. Middle Dutch sleeu, Dutch slee, Old High German sleha, German Schlehe), from PIE *sleie- "blue, bluish, blue-black" (see livid).

The vowel has been influenced by that in the old plural form, which according to OED persisted into the 17c. Scottish slae preserves the older vowel. Sloe-eyed is attested from 1804; sloe gin first recorded 1878.

Example Sentences for sloe

The effect of a couple of large glasses of sloe gin was quickly apparent.

The entire plant is used for much the same purposes as the sloe.

The manufacture of sloe gin is as simple as that of cherry brandy.

It feeds on hawthorn chiefly, but sometimes on sloe, plum, etc.

Nature, in inventing the wild grape, has been as generous as in her gift of the sloe.

It feeds in April and May on hawthorn, sloe, crab, and apple.

What hand had planted the rare exotic adjacent to the hawthorn and the sloe?

The name signifies in Gaelic the church of the sloe or wild plum-tree.

She flashed her teeth at him as she came up, sloe eyes flirting.

They can squeeze bordeaux out of the sloe, and draw champagne from an apple.

sloe

Synonyms for sloe

Antonyms for sloe

More words related to sloe

black

onyx

pitch-black

pitchy