different between coleslaw vs colewort

English

Alternative forms

• cole slaw (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??lsl??/
• Rhymes: -??lsl??

Noun

coleslaw (usually uncountable, plural coleslaws)

1. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).

Synonyms

• slaw (US, Canada)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: coleslaw
• ? Japanese: ??????
• ? Polish: coleslaw

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?l.sl??/
• Hyphenation: cole?slaw

Noun

coleslaw m (uncountable)

1. coleslaw

Polish

Alternative forms

• coles?aw
• koles?aw

Etymology

From English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla. Colloquial pronunciation results from similarity of the word to the Polish given name Boles?aw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard) /?k?l.sl?w/, (colloquial) /k??l?.swaf/

Noun

coleslaw m inan (indeclinable)

1. coleslaw salad

Further reading

• coleslaw in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• coleslaw in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole +? wort.

Noun

colewort (usually uncountable, plural coleworts)

1. A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].

Synonyms

• (headless Brassica): cole

Related terms

• coleslaw

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