Noun: yowe
Sample Sentences
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The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips. [1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish:]
Nouns inflected like yowe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English yowe, yeue, variant forms of ewe, from Old English eowu. Compare doublet ewe and Scots yowe. See: Middle English Nouns '
yowe', Old English Nouns '
eowu'.