Sallower vs Tallower - What's the difference?

sallower | tallower |

As an adjective sallower

is comparative of sallow.

As a noun tallower is

an animal which produces tallow.

sallower

English

Adjective

(head)

(sallow)

Anagrams

sallow

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) salowe, from (etyl) salu, from (etyl) ).

Adjective

(er)

(lb) Yellowish skin colour.

# Of a sickly pale colour.

#*: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.

#(lb) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

#*2007 , David McWilliams, " We must begin the culture debate", 23 December:

#*:The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen.

#*2012 , Aisling, " Am I pink or yellow? How to choose the right foundation tone. And what is the deal with Mac foundations?" beaut.ie (17 January):

#*:A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian.

#*2012 , Billy Keane, " I feel so much for Mickey. Maybe there is peace for him in sport", Irish Independent (13 June):

#*:She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.

Dirty; murky.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) salwe, from (etyl) sealh, from (etyl) (compare Welsh helyg, Latin salix), probably originally a borrowing from some other language.

Noun

(wikipedia sallow) (en noun)

A European willow, Salix caprea , that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

*1819 , Keats, :

*:Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

*:Among the river sallows , borne aloft

*:Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

Willow twigs.

* (and other bibliographic details) Fawkes

Bend the pliant sallow to a shield.

* (and other bibliographic details) Emerson

The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.

Derived terms

* ) * sallow flute

Anagrams

tallower

English

Noun

(en noun)

An animal which produces tallow.

* 1813 , Arthur Young, General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex (page 332)

The South Down sheep are not great tallowers , compared with some other sorts; but what they loose in tallow, they make up in a disposition to fatten.

A merchant who deals in tallow.

(Webster 1913)