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Owld vs Owd - What's the difference?

owld | owd |

As an adjective owld

is .

As a verb owd is

(archaic) (owe).

owld

English

Adjective

(er)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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." }}

    owd

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (owe)
  • Anagrams

    *

    owe

    English

    Verb

    (ow)
  • 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.
  • Usage notes

    * The original past tense form was ought, which during Middle English began to be used with indefinite signification and has become a distinct verb. The original past participle has become the adjective own.

    Anagrams

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