FALLOW

PRONUNCIATION: (FAL-oh)

MEANING: adj.: 1. Inactive or unproductive.
2. (Of land) left to lie idle for a season, sometimes after plowing.
noun: 1. Land left to lie idle to restore its fertility.
2. The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
verb tr.: To leave unseeded.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English fealh (fallow land). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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FILLOW - a light thin multilayered dough used in many middle-eastern cuisines

FAL-LA - OW! - to sing madrigals for so long that it hurts

FEAL LOW - to be melancholic