Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1793
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
†SOWL, v. To pull roughly by the ears. Also in Eng. dial. The quot. below however may be liter., ad. Shakespeare Coriolanus iv. v. [sʌul]Peb. 1793 R. Brown Comic Poems (1817) 134:
Some Wives, too, here are famous round, . . . For clishmaclavers, bites, and taunts, Till they each other sowl.
You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Sowl v.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 17 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sowl_v>
