sallow
/ˈsæloʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!"
- "[…] were it not that his Complexion is sallow, and that he is something short of a Leg, and Blind of one Eye, he would positively be the most lovely of all the human Species."
- "Once a handsome face, with bright color, it was now sallow and deep-lined […]"
- "Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls."
- "[…] there was something owl-like about the eyes, round which there was a sallow, hollow depression."
- "She had sallow skin and myopic eyes, and none of the men had ever slept with her because none of the men had ever wanted to […]"
Etymology
From Middle English salowe, from Old English salu, from Proto-West Germanic *salu, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selH-. See also Dutch zaluw, dialectal German sal; also Irish salach (“dirty”), Welsh halog, Latin salīva, Russian соло́вый (solóvyj, “cream-colored”), and - through Frankish - French sale.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsæloʊ/
- British English: /ˈsæləʊ/