Mowest vs Molest - What's the difference?
mowest | molest |
(archaic) (mow)
To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:
*:Those that paint them dyingdelineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
* Shakespeare
To make grimaces, mock.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
* Tyndale
A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
To annoy intentionally
To disturb or tamper with.
* Hooker
To sexually abuse, especially a minor
As verbs the difference between mowest and molest
is that mowest is (archaic) (mow) while molest is to annoy intentionally.mowest
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Verb
(head)mow
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )Verb
- He mowed the lawn .
Derived terms
* mow downEtymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Make mows at him.
Verb
(en verb)- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing .
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
See also
*Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologiesmolest
English
(Child sexual abuse)Verb
(en verb)- They have molested the church with needless opposition.
- The woman who molested the child she was babysitting has been arrested.
