sloo

English

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Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uː

Noun

sloo (plural sloos)

  1. A slough; a run or wet place.
    • 1910, Harold Bindloss, “Hawtrey's Deputy”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 32, page 436:
      Afterwards she and Mrs. Hastings talked with the housekeeper for a while, and an hour had slipped away when Wyllard suggested that he should show her the sloo beyond the bluff .

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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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