slouk

Yola

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sləʊk/

Etymology 1

From Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr.

Alternative forms

Noun

slouk

  1. An idle, heedless person.[1]
    Synonym: stuggoone

Etymology 2

Cognate with English sloke (“laver”).

Noun

slouk

  1. Edible seaweed.[2]

References

  1. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68
  2. ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎[1], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 160
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