sloke

[ slohk ]

noun

1. algae or seaweed.
2. scum or slime, especially on a body of water.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sloke¹

1425–75; earlier slawk, late Middle English slauk, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Porphyra, from a Greek word meaning "purple," is the true Laver, or Sloke.

From Project Gutenberg

Do you think you can sloke me off with this stuff?

From Project Gutenberg

Now, I tell you, they hadn't climbed over the first stave, when there come a skirl of wind and spindrift of snow as almost took them off of their feet; and, on the going down of it, Jem Sloke, as played the hautboy, dropped the reed from his mouth, and called out, 'Sakes alive! if we fools ain't been standin' outside a gentleman's gate all the time, and not knowin' it!'

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