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cawl

/kəʉl//kaʊl/

cawl noun: a traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables. Also the alternative spelling of caul.

cawl: a traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks,...
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Noun

cawl (countable and uncountable, plural cawls)

  1. A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.

Also used as

cawl is also the alternative spelling of caul.

Forms of cawl

pluralcawls

Origin of cawl

Borrowed from Welsh cawl, itself borrowed from Latin caulis (“stalk or stem of a plant, particularly a cabbage”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw(ǝ)l, *kh₂ulós, or *kowos (“tubular bone; pipe”). The English word is a doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

A variant of caul.

Words that rhyme with cawl

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Questions about cawl

What does cawl mean?
Cawl means a traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
What part of speech is cawl?
Cawl is a noun.
How do you pronounce cawl?
Cawl is pronounced /kaʊl/ (UK).
What is the plural of cawl?
The plural of cawl is cawls.

Words near cawl in the dictionary

  1. cawkers
  2. cawks
  3. Cawkwell
  4. Cawkwells
  5. cawky
  6. cawl
  7. Cawley
  8. cawls
  9. Cawmos
  10. CAWN
  11. cawney

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