sloe
noun/sləʊ/
/sləʊ/
- a bitter wild fruit like a small plum that grows on a bush called a blackthorn Topics Foodc2Oxford Collocations DictionarySloe is used before these nouns:
- gin
Word OriginOld English slā(h), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slee and German Schlehe, from an Indo-European root probably shared by Latin livere ‘be blue’ and Serbo-Croat šljiva ‘plum’.Definitions on the go
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