sybo

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English

Etymology

From cibol. Compare Scottish Gaelic siobann, siobaid.

Noun

sybo (plural sybos or syboes)

  1. (Scotland) A spring onion.
    • 1851, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Waverley Novels: Old Mortality, page 772:
      the head's taen aff them, as clean as I wad bite it aff a sybo!" rejoined Cuddie.
    • 1863, Hawick Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society, page 98:
      A person at whom Inglis had a grudge, was owner of a beautiful garden and flower plot, in which he took great delight, priding himself on the beauty and variety of his flowers and he size and quality of his sybo and carrot beds.
    • 1868, John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, James Hogg, Noctes Ambrosian: Volume 1, page 86:
      Yes; in romantic dew - mountain dew, my respected sir, that could give scent to a sybo.

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