slaw

Borrowed (around 1861) from Dutch sla, shortened from salade (“salad, lettuce”).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /slɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

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slaw (countable and uncountable, plural slaws)

1. (US, Canada) Coleslaw.
   • 1996, Jerry Bledsoe, Slaw Crazy, Lee Harrison Child (editor), Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, page 66,

     Barbecue is always served with slaw in North Carolina and always has been.

   • 2002, Alex Haas, Everyday Low Carb Cooking, page 73,

     My boss, whose daughter was a working chef, told me that I made the best slaws that she had ever tasted. The secret is that slaws deserve as much care in their preparation as any other good meal.

   • 2010, Judy Doherty, Salad Secrets: 100 of the Most Creative, Healthful Recipes, page 103,

     Slaws go well with grilled lean protein items and sandwiches.

• cheese slaw
• red slaw
• white slaw
• kimslaw

• Laws, awls, laws

• slǣw, slēaw

From Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /slɑːw/

slāw

1. lazy
2. slow, inert

• slāwlīċe
• slǣwþ

• Middle English: slaw, slow
  • English: slow
  • Scots: slaw

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Sláw”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.