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Sulls vs Sully - What's the difference?

sulls | sully |

As verbs the difference between sulls and sully

is that sulls is (sull) while sully is to soil or stain; to dirty.

sulls

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sull)

    • sull

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to stop, to refuse to go on (of an animal - example - donkey or a possum plays dead)
  • :* 1992': The mesteño had stopped and '''sulled in the road with its forefeet spread and he sat looking after her. — Cormac McCarthy, ''All The Pretty Horses

    • Etymology 2

    Anglo-Saxon (suluh), (sulh), a plough; compare Old High German suohili a little plough.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A plough.
    • (Ainsworth)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    sully

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • to soil or stain; to dirty
    • He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
  • * Roscommon
    • statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke
  • to damage or corrupt
    • He did not wish to sully his reputation with an ill-mannered comment.
  • * Atterbury
    • no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity
  • To become soiled or tarnished.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.