Sowl vs Jowl - What's the difference?
sowl | jowl |
A relish; sauce; dainty; anything eaten with bread.
Tasty, seasoned food.
Pottage; moist, liquid food.
Any liquid that is drunk.
the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
(obsolete) To throw, dash, or knock.
* Shakespeare
a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
As nouns the difference between sowl and jowl
is that sowl is a relish; sauce; dainty; anything eaten with bread or sowl can be while jowl is the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible or jowl can be a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).As verbs the difference between sowl and jowl
is that sowl is to pull by the ears; to drag about while jowl is (obsolete|transitive) to throw, dash, or knock.sowl
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sovel, suvel, saulee, from (etyl) sufl, sufel, .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) sowle, . More at (l).Etymology 3
Compare (etyl) zaulen, zauseln, . More at (l).Anagrams
* * *jowl
English
Alternative forms
* jole, joll (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) chawl, (ae)).Noun
(en noun)- I had lain, therefore, all that time, cheek by jowl with Blackbeard himself, with only a thin shell of tinder wood to keep him from me, and now had thrust my hand into his coffin and plucked away his beard.
Verb
(en verb)- How the knave jowls it to the ground.
