different between plaw vs slaw

English

Alternative forms

• play

Etymology

From Middle English plawen, playen, pla?en, from Old English plagian, a dialectal (Anglian) variant of Old English plegian (“to move about quickly, play”). More at play.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Verb

plaw (third-person singular simple present plaws, present participle plawing, simple past and past participle plawed)

1. (intransitive) To boil; seethe.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To boil; boil slightly; parboil.

Noun

plaw (plural plaws)

1. A boiling.

   give meat a plaw

Anagrams

• Walp, pawl

Middle English

Noun

plaw

1. Alternative form of pleye

English

Etymology

Borrowed (around 1861) from Dutch sla, shortened from salade (“salad, lettuce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

slaw (countable and uncountable, plural slaws)

1. (US, Canada) Coleslaw.
   • 1996, Jerry Bledsoe, Slaw Crazy, Lee Harrison Child (editor), Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, page 66,

     Barbecue is always served with slaw in North Carolina and always has been.

   • 2002, Alex Haas, Everyday Low Carb Cooking, page 73,

     My boss, whose daughter was a working chef, told me that I made the best slaws that she had ever tasted. The secret is that slaws deserve as much care in their preparation as any other good meal.

   • 2010, Judy Doherty, Salad Secrets: 100 of the Most Creative, Healthful Recipes, page 103,

     Slaws go well with grilled lean protein items and sandwiches.

Derived terms

• cheese slaw
• red slaw
• white slaw
• kimslaw

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Laws, awls, laws

Old English

Alternative forms

• sl?w

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??w/

Adjective

sl?w

1. slow, inert

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Declension

Derived terms

• sl?wl??e

Descendants

• Middle English: slaw, slow
  • English: slow
  • Scots: slaw

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “Sláw”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.