Owld vs Owd - What's the difference?
owld | owd |
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe." }}
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Leland Powers, title=Practice Book, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=The Irrational Knot, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. ' }}
*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Ernest Thompson Seton, title=Two Little Savages, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Shure the Dog and the Cat both av thim was scairt, and the owld white-faced cow come a-runnin' an' jumped the bars to get aff av the road." }} (archaic) (owe)
To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
*1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 7:
*:He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
To have debt, to be in debt.
As an adjective owld
is .As a verb owd is
(archaic) (owe).owld
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