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sowls

sowls is the plural of sowl.

Meaning of sowl

Noun

sowl (plural sowls)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
    • Good lorjus days, whot whofo times ar' theese! / Pot-baws ar scant, an dear is seawl an cheese!1812, Tim Bobbin [pseudonym; John Collier], “Reader. Hear a Spon-new Cank between th’ Eawther and His Buk.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing His View of the Lancashire...

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Questions about sowls

What is sowls the plural of?
Sowls is the plural of sowl.

Words near sowls in the dictionary

  1. sowles
  2. Sowleses
  3. sowlike
  4. sowling
  5. sowlings
  6. sowls
  7. sowlth
  8. sowlths
  9. sowm
  10. sowmed
  11. sowming

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