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sybo

sybo noun: a spring onion.

Noun

sybo (plural sybos or syboes)

  1. (Scotland) A spring onion.
    • the head's taen aff them, as clean as I wad bite it aff a sybo!" rejoined Cuddie.1851, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Waverley Novels: Old Mortality, page 772
    • A person at whom Inglis had a grudge, was owner of a beautiful garden and flower plot, in which he took great delight, priding himself on the beauty and variety of his flowers and he size and quality of his sybo and carrot beds.1863, Hawick Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society, page 98

Forms of sybo

pluralsybos
pluralsyboes

Origin of sybo

From cibol. Compare Scottish Gaelic siobann, siobaid.

Questions about sybo

What does sybo mean?
Sybo means a spring onion.
What part of speech is sybo?
Sybo is a noun.
What is the plural of sybo?
The plural of sybo is sybos.

Words near sybo in the dictionary

  1. Sybil attacks
  2. Sybill
  3. Sybilla
  4. sybilline
  5. sybils
  6. sybo
  7. syboe
  8. syboes
  9. sybos
  10. sybow
  11. sybows

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