Ax vs Ex - What's the difference?
ax | ex |
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* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
* 1979 , (Verna Mae Slone), What My Heart Wants to Tell , Kentucky 1988, p. 18:
*:‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’
English two-letter words
English terms with multiple etymologies
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(colloquial) An ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner.
To delete; to cross out
As a proper noun ax
is .As a noun ex is
ex-girlfriend or ex can be ex-boyfriend.ax
English
Etymology 1
See .Noun
(es)Verb
(es)Etymology 2
(etyl) acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.Verb
(es)- When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
ex
English
Noun
(en-noun)- She broke up with her ex .