sloo

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uː

Noun

sloo (plural sloos)

  1. A slough; a run or wet place.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sloo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Manx

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of s' (particle used to introduce the superlative form of adjectives) +‎ loo

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sluː/

Adjective

sloo

  1. superlative degree of beg (“small, few”)
    T'eh ny sloo ny kishtey arran ― It is smaller than a box of bread.
    Ny sloo na blein ny yei e vaase. ― Within a year of his death. (literally, “Smaller than a year after his death.”)
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