tallow

Meaning

Noun

A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.

Verb

1. To grease or smear with tallow.
2. (transitive) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
3. (intransitive) Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.

Synonyms

fat

grease

suet

lard

butter

🧈

wax

come

face cream

chuff

curd

gravy

honey

🍯

fetch

flame

cumin

butter oil

frig

freak

frock

fuck

👉👌

futz

goo

quince

roe

cum

jelly

jism

jizz

juice

lot

frame

load

lather

malt

mayonnaise

mess

mettle

milk

🥛

muck

oats

oil

ointment

paste

pineapple

🍍

protein

pudding

flip

rice pudding

cream

buttermilk

Translations

suif

sebo

Talg

talg

sego

reuzel

smeer

talk

sebo

sebum

kaarsvet

sèu

λίπος

saevum

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtæləʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: talow

Inherited from Old English: *tealh

Cognate with Old English: tælg

Cognate with Dutch: talg

Cognate with German: Talg

Cognate with Middle Irish: delt

Cognate with Classical Armenian: տեղ

In summary

From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).