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How to pronounce sloe in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms alleghany plum, allegheny plum, prunus alleghaniensis
Type of wild plum, wild plum tree
Type Words
Synonyms blackthorn, prunus spinosa
Type of bush, shrub
Type Words
Type of plum

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To make sloe gin, either gather them after a frost or freeze them before using.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Taste for sweetness and add an extra drizzle of cassis or sloe gin if you like.
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Well, working on the same principles, why not try it with home-made sloe gin?
From the telegraph.co.uk
A raw bullace will be sour, but a sloe will be lip-curlingly, mouth-dryingly tannic.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Some people use rum instead of gin, and others have tried vodka or sloe gin.
From the chron.com
Although I have also made cinnamon and sloe gin and blackbeery and sloe gin.
From the guardian.co.uk
While you are waiting for the gin, this will give you the sloe fix, quick.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Her year-round garden is full of blueberries, elderberries, sloe and hops.
From the sfgate.com
As soon as it starts to simmer turn off the heat and add the sloe gin and the oranges.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Allegheny plum: wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
  • Blackthorn: a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
  • Small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
  • Prunus spinosa (blackthorn or sloe) is a species of Prunus native to Europe, western Asia, and locally in northwest Africa.Rushforth, K. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9. ...
  • The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself; Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, P. alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit
  • Has put on blossom and mother has borne a child.
  • Sloe Gin (pronounced like "slow")