Poetic Symbolism

3 words in this vocabulary list

ewe

noun a female sheep

  • The farmer decided to breed his ewe with the ram to increase his flock.
  • Hey, have you seen the cute little lamb that just came from that ewe?
  • That ewe is one sassy lady, always getting into mischief.
  • Her stubbornness is like that of a ewe, refusing to budge on her decision.

noun the passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the esophagus

  • The food traveled down his gullet and into his stomach.
  • He swallowed the whole sandwich in one go, straight down the gullet.
  • I can't believe you actually ate that, you have a bottomless gullet!
  • The politician's lies went down the public's gullet without question.

sot

noun a habitual drunkard or heavy drinker

  • The sot was escorted out of the high-end restaurant for causing a disturbance.
  • I heard that sot was stumbling around the bar last night.
  • That sot is always getting into trouble when he drinks too much.
  • His reputation as a sot preceded him wherever he went.