Crossword clues for sloe
sloe
- Sour plum
- Shrub with a purple fruit
- Plum-like fruit
- It can be used to make gin
- Gin Genre
- Gin fizz opener
- Fruity gin flavoring
- Fruit with an astringent flavor
- Fruit in the lyrics to "Portland, Oregon"
- Fruit in some chutney
- Blue-black fruit of the blackthorn
- Base of a gin fizz
- A type of gin
- ___-gin fizz
- ___ gin fizz (fruity cocktail)
- ___ gin fizz (drink)
- ___ eyed
- Word with eyed or gin
- Wild plum with a sour flavor
- Wild plum of Europe
- The blackthorn
- Tart, purplish fruit
- Tart, purple fruit
- Tart-tasting fruit
- Tart plum of Europe
- Sour, blackish fruit
- Sour-tasting fruit
- Sour blue-black fruit
- Sluggish-sounding fruit
- Shrub with small sour fruit
- Shrub with plumlike fruits
- Sharply sour fruit
- Schlehenfeuer ingredient
- Red gin
- Purplish black
- Plum's cousin
- Plum used to flavor spirits
- Plum used in some gins
- Plum species used in gin
- Plum relative that gets paired with gin
- Plum in some gin
- Plum fruit
- Plum eaten by the Iceman
- Plant of the genus Prunus
- No fast food, by the sound of it
- Nectarine cousin
- Member of the plum family
- Liquor-flavoring fruit
- Liqueur-flavoring fruit
- Kin of the damson plum
- Ingredient of slivovitz
- Ingredient in some fizzy drinks
- Ingredient in a gin-based liqueur
- Gin-fizz flavor
- Gin cocktail fruit
- Gin base
- Fruity liqueur base
- Fruit used to make the Spanish liqueur patxaran
- Fruit used in gin drinks
- Fruit used in alcohol flavoring
- Fruit tree also known as a blackthorn
- Fruit that's a homophone of a word meaning "sluggish"
- Fruit that sounds sluggish
- Fruit that flavors gin
- Fruit steeped in gin to make a liqueur
- Fruit of the rose family
- Fruit of the Prunus spinosa
- Fruit mixed with gin
- Fruit in tart jellies
- Fruit in some gin
- Fruit in some English jellies
- Fruit in a fizz
- Flavoring for the liqueur prunelle
- Flavor of gin
- Fizz fruit
- English jelly ingredient
- English jelly fruit
- Dark, astringent fruit
- Dark-barked shrub
- Dark colored plum
- Dark astringent fruit
- Damson's cousin
- Cousin of a plum
- Cherry plum relative
- Cherry cousin
- Bush with a tart fruit
- Brits' jam flavour
- Bluish-black sour fruit
- Bluish-black fruit
- Blue-black plumlike fruit
- Blackthorn's berrylike blue-black fruit
- Blackthorn shrub
- Blackthorn fruit used to make gin
- Apricot cousin
- Almond-tree cousin
- Allegheny plum
- Acerbic fruit
- (Fruit of the) blackthorn
- --- gin
- __-black (bluish shade)
- ___ gin rickey
- ___ gin fizz (plum-flavored cocktail)
- ___ gin (liqueur type)
- __ gin
- ___-eyed
- Flowering shrub
- _____ gin fizz
- Blackthorn fruit used as a gin flavoring
- Kind of gin fizz
- _____-eyed
- Fizz flavoring
- _____ eyed
- Gin fruit
- Liqueur flavoring
- ___eyed
- Wild plum with a tart flavor
- Gin flavoring fruit
- Dark purple fruit
- Spiny shrub
- ___ gin fizz (cocktail)
- Shrub of the rose family
- Tart plumlike fruit
- Fruit used for preserves
- Sour fruit
- Hedge plant with white flowers
- Astringent fruit
- Fruit used to flavor liqueur
- Gin flavorer
- Blue-black berrylike fruit
- __ gin fizz (drink)
- Member of the rose family
- Plumlike fruit used in gin
- Dark-skinned fruit
- Thorny Eurasian shrub
- Fruit used in English jelly
- Shrub akin to the cherry plum
- Relative of a cherry plum
- Plum look-alike
- Juicy fruit
- Apricot relative
- Tart fruit used for gin
- Sharp-tasting fruit
- Allegheny plum, e.g.
- Plum relative used to flavor gin
- Popular gin flavoring
- Tart English jelly fruit
- Plum used to flavor gin
- Small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
- Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
- Plant with dark purple berries
- Relative of a plum
- Dark-colored plum
- Prunelle flavoring
- Puzzler's plum
- Gin variety
- Type of gin
- Fruit of the blackthorn
- Bullace's kin
- Liquor flavoring
- Gin fizz flavoring
- Blackthorn product
- Shrub with a sour fruit
- Plum type
- Plum for gin
- Blackthorn's fruit
- Small plum
- Black haw
- Thorny shrub
- Gin type
- Gin source
- Sour blackthorn fruit
- Fruit is late, we hear
- Last of pickers still to grade fruit
- Potato initially excluded from list of fruit
- Thorny bush with plum-like fruit
- -- gin fizz
- Liqueur flavor
- Gin-flavoring fruit
- Fizz ingredient
- Purple fruit
- Fruit for flavoring gin
- ____ Gin Fizz
- Fruit used to flavor gin
- Gin fizz flavorer
- Type of plum
- Blackthorn plum, gin flavoring
- ___ gin fizz (bar order)
- Gin fizz fruit
- Kind of plum
- Fizz flavorer
- Purplish fruit
- Plum kin
- Sour purple fruit
- Shrub with a tart fruit
- Purple plum
- Plum cousin
- Fruit in a gin fizz
- Blackthorn berry
- --- gin fizz
- Pucker-inducing fruit
- Plumlike gin flavoring
- Liqueur base
- Fruit similar to a plum
- ___ gin fizz (sour cocktail)
- Wild American plum
- Tart jam flavor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sloe \Sloe\ (sl[=o]), n. [OE. slo, AS. sl[=a]; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. sl[=e]ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl[*a]n, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. slywa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn ( Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fruit of the blackthorn, Old English slah (plural slan), from Proto-Germanic *slaikhwon (cognates: Middle Dutch sleeu, Dutch slee, Old High German sleha, German Schlehe), from PIE *sleie- "blue, bluish, blue-black" (see livid).\n
\nThe vowel has been influenced by that in the old plural form, which according to OED persisted into the 17c. Scottish slae preserves the older vowel. Sloe-eyed is attested from 1804; sloe gin first recorded 1878.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (''Prunus spinosa''); also, the tree itself. 2 Any of various other plants of the genus ''Prunus'', as a shrub or small tree, (taxlink Prunus alleghaniensis species noshow=1), bearing dark-purple fruit.
WordNet
n. wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh [syn: Allegheny plum, Alleghany plum, Prunus alleghaniensis]
a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: blackthorn, Prunus spinosa]
small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "sloe".
Among the myriad colonies of close-set mussels, which gave a blue bloom, like that of the sloe, to the weed-covered boulders, a few kittiwakes and dotterels flitted to and fro.
The term Sloe, or Sla, means not the fruit but the hard trunk, being connected with a verb signifying to slay, or strike, probably because the wood of this tree was used as a flail, and nowadays makes a bludgeon.
Arctic bramble, the sloe, goat-weed, Mexican goosefoot, speedwell, wild geranium, veronica, wormwood, juniper, saffron, carduus benedictus, trefoil, wood-sorrel, pepper, mace, scurry grass, plantain, and betony.
Sloe, who lives on an adjoining farm, had three acres of Peachblow potatoes the same year.
Sloes, the rich summer plums of Eire, were heaped on a tray surrounded by strawberries, whortleberries, and rowanberries in sweet cream.
The hawthorn bushes were a young green, every hedge-root had its celandines and primroses, and there were thickets of sloe, white as if with linen laid out to bleach.
There was little choice as to what one might drink: ale, cider or an inferior, breath-stopping, tongue-numbing Genever long steeped with bitter sloes.
She looked at the drab road and thought of the glowing trees and the wisps of smoke from bonfires and the hedges full of sloes and the cottage she still missed so abominably.
She will be a brown beauty, but she will have a color in her cheeks and lips like the red of Christmas holly, and her owl's eyes are as black as sloes and have fringes on them like the curtains of a window.
There was Spanish omelette cut up in small pieces on cocktail sticks, and a huge stew, with baked potatoes, and a winter salad, and plum cake steeped in brandy and Stilton, with masses of claret and sloe gin.
The globular, fleshy fruit, marked with a faint suture, has generally a black skin, covered with a thin bluish bloom, and is similar to the Sloe, but larger, often an inch across, and drooping from its weight, not erect as the Sloe.
I make brandy Alexander, de folks from up de hill does like dem, and sloe gin fizz and like dat.
He was offered a sloe gin fizz in a pink frosted glass by a young woman who removed her glass eye and sucked on it while discussing the moral imperatives of the sponge boycott in Brooksville, Florida.
Resembles the Blackthorn or Sloe (Prunus spinosa), but is less thorny and has straight, not crooked branches, covered by brown, not black bark, only a few of the old ones terminating in spines, the younger ones downy.
Enderby, serving one morning abstractedly sloe gin to two customers, hit on a solution.