sloe
(noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa
(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sloe (plural sloes)
The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
The tree Prunus spinosa.
Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, OELs, Sole, elos, leos, lose, sole
Source: Wiktionary
Sloe, n. Etym: [OE. slo, AS. sla; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. sl$ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. sliwa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.)
Definition: A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 June 2025
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
