sull

Back-formation from sullen.

• IPA^(key): /sʌl/
• Rhymes: -ʌl

sull (third-person singular simple present sulls, present participle sulling, simple past and past participle sulled)

1. (intransitive) Of an animal: to stop; to refuse to go on.
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

     The mesteño had stopped and sulled in the road with its forefeet spread and he sat looking after her.

From Old English sulh (“plough”). Compare sullow and Old High German suohili (“little plough”).

• (Exmoor): zowl

sull (plural sulls)

1. (Western England dialectal) A plough.

• sull-paddle, sull-breaking

• "sull, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• sull in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Back-formation from sulla (“to splash about”).

• IPA^(key): /sʏtl/
• Rhymes: -ʏtl

sull n (genitive singular sulls, no plural)

1. mixture, mix
2. watered down drink, piss, slosh
3. splashing

• samsull (“hotchpotch, jumble”)

From Old Norse sullr, from Proto-Germanic *swulliz, from *swellaną (“to swell,”) whence sväll. Cognate with Jamtish súll, syll, Norwegian svull, svoll.

sull m

1. Tendency to swell; swelling; boil.

• syll m

• sväll
• sullen