Sloe

Definition: Sloe

Sloe

Noun

1. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.

2. A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits.

3. Small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush.

Date "sloe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definition: Sloe

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	Fruit of the wild blackthorn, Prunus spinosa. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Sloe

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The sloe berry is the fruit of the blackthorn bush (Prunus spinosa, Rosaceae). It is used to flavour sloe gin, which is not true gin but a liqueur.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sloe."

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Synonym: Sloe

Synonym: blackthorn (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Sloe

Domain	Title
Books	Chislennoe modelirovanie techenii viazkogo gaza v udarnom sloe (reference) Fishing the Sloe Black River (reference) Granulirovanie i obzhig v psevdoozhizhennom sloe (reference) Kondensatsiia vodiaykh parov v pochvogruntakh i prizemnom sloe : bibliograficheskii ukazatel� 1877-1987 gg (reference) Pererabotka v kipiashchem sloe poluproduktov nikelevogo proizvodstva (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Sloe

"Sloe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Sloe" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	77.78%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	22.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sloe

Expressions using "sloe": sloe bush ♦ sloe gin ♦ sloe tree. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sloe": sloe-black, sloe-eyed, sloe-hatching, sloe-wind.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sloe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sloe gin	17
sloe gin fizz	12
sloe	12
berry history sloe	4
fizz gin recipe sloe	3
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Modern Translation: Sloe

Language		Translations for "sloe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kullumbri. (various references)

Arabic		‏برقوق السياج (blackthorn). (various references)

Bulgarian		трънка (blackthorn). (various references)

Czech		trnka (blackthorn). (various references)

Danish		slaaen (balckthorn), slåen. (various references)

Dutch		sleepruim, sleedoorn (blackthorn), zwarte doorn (balckthorn). (various references)

Farsi		گوجه (Plum), الوچه , ابی تیره . (various references)

Finnish		oratuomi (blackthorn). (various references)

French		prunelle. (various references)

German		Schlehe (blackthorn, self-heal). (various references)

Greek		αγριοδαμάσκηνο. (various references)

Hebrew		שזיף בר (damson). (various references)

Hungarian		kökény. (various references)

Italian		prugnola. (various references)

Manx		airn (bullace). (various references)

Pig Latin		oeslay

Portuguese		abrunho. (various references)

Russian		терн (blackthorn, golden thistle). (various references)

Scottish		� irneag. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trnjina, trn (blackthorn, briar, prickle, thorn). (various references)

Spanish		endrino (blackthorn, sledge, sleigh), endrina. (various references)

Swedish		slånbär, slån (blackthorn). (various references)

Thai		ผลไม้รสเปรี้ยว. (various references)

Turkish		yaban eriği, karaçalı (blackthorn, furze, gorse), çakaleriği. (various references)

Ukrainian		терен (blackthorn), плід дикої сливи. (various references)

Vietnamese		quả mận gai cây mận gai. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sloe

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Prunus spinosa. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Sloe

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sloe": sloes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sloe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eloe, osleo, salmoe, Salojee, scoe, Selloi, selue, Seol, siloa, silou, skoe, slae, slaxe, sleo, sleq, slie, slieu, slo, sloa, sload, sloag, slobe, slod, sloet, sloge, sloi, slol, slome, slone, sloof, sloor, slor, slore, slote, slou, slov, slove, slowe, sloy, sloz, slui, slune, sluze, snoe, soeh, soel, solei, solem, soley, solie, solu, sooey, sooi, spoe, stoe, svoe, uloe, zlote, zole. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sloe"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sloe" (pronounced slō")
3	s l ō"	slow.
2	-l ō"	aglow, below, blow, floe, flow, glow, hello, lo, low, Lowe, overflow, plough, rouleau, tableau, tableaux.
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Anagrams: Sloe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lose, oles, sole.
	Words within the letters "e-l-o-s"
	-1 letter: els, oes, ole, ose, sel, sol.
	-2 letters: el, es, lo, oe, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-o-s"
	+1 letter: aloes, boles, close, coles, doles, enols, floes, helos, holes, hosel, joles, koels, lenos, lobes, lodes, loess, loges, loose, lopes, lores, losel, loser, loses, louse, loves, lowes, lowse, loxes, moles, noels, ogles, oleos, orles, ousel, poles, roles, sheol, sloes, slope, socle, soled, solei, soles, solve, sorel, stole, telos, toles, voles.
	+2 letters: aldose, amoles, anoles, aslope, azoles, belows, blokes, blouse, bogles, botels, boules, bowels, cellos, celoms, ceorls, clones, closed, closer, closes, closet, cloves, clozes, cobles, coleus, colies, cresol, dholes, dorsel, dossel, dowels, elbows, eloins, elopes, enrols, ensoul, extols, felons, filose, folles, globes, gloves, glozes, golems, gospel, haloes, haoles, helios, hellos, helots, holies, hosels, hostel, hotels, housel, hovels, hoyles, insole, isohel, jostle, joules, kelson, ketols, lanose, lemons, lentos, leones, lesion, lesson, lessor, loaves, locoes, lodens, lodges, loners, longes, looeys, looies, loosed, loosen, looser, looses, lopers, lories, losels, losers, losses, lottes, louies, loupes, loused, louses, lovers, lowers, lowest, melons, models, mohels, molest, molies, morels, morsel, motels, nelson, nerols, nobles, novels, obelus, oboles, odyles, oglers, oilers, oldest, oldies, oleins, oleums, olives, oodles, oriels, oscule, osmole, osteal, ostler, ousels, ouzels, ovules, owlets, peplos, pilose, poleis, polers, polies, proles, reoils, resold, resole, robles, rowels, scolex, seldom, sheols, shovel, siloed, sleazo, sloped, sloper, slopes, sloven, slowed, slower, socles, soiled, solace, solate, solder, solely, solemn, soleus, solgel, soloed, solute, solved, solver, solves, sorels, sorely, sorrel, souled, splore, sterol, stoled, stolen, stoles, telson, tholes, toiles, tousle, towels, voiles, voltes, vowels, wholes, wolves, xylose, yodels, yodles, yokels.
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