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sloe

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sloe has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sloen. [OE. slo, AS. slā; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. sl, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. slywa a plum, Russ. sliva.].
     A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sloe, n.
1 = BLACKTHORN.
2 its small bluish-black fruit with a sharp sour taste.

Idiom
sloe-eyed
1 having eyes of this colour.
2 slant-eyed. sloe-gin a liqueur of sloes steeped in gin.
Etymology
OE sla(h) f. Gmc

THESAURUS

sloe

atramentous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, ebony, ink-black, inky, jetty, midnight, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, sable, sloe-black, sloe-colored, tar-black, tarry

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sloe

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.

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