sow² /sow/

1. A female pig
2. The female of various other animals, eg the badger
3. An abusive term for a fat, lazy, greedy, or sluttish person, esp a woman
4. A main channel for molten iron, leading to metal pigs (qv)
5. The metal solidified there
6. A movable shed for protecting besiegers (military historical)

sowˈback noun (geology)

Same as hogback (see under hog¹)

sowˈbread noun

A cyclamen, esp Cyclamen europaeum, so called because its tubers are eaten by pigs

sow bug noun (N American)

A woodlouse

sowˈ-drunk adjective (obs inf)

Extremely and inhumanly drunk

sowˈ-skin noun and adjective

• putid
• put ideas into someone's head
• put in
• put-in
• put in a false position
• put in a good word for
• put in an appearance
• put in mind
• put in mind of
• put in mothballs
• put-ins
• put in the boot
• put in the picture
• put in the shade
• put in the wrong
• put into effect
• put it across
• put it across someone
• put it mildly
• put it on
• put it past someone
• put it together
• putlock
• putlocks
• putlog