Soe vs Sore - What's the difference?
soe | sore |
(obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 55:
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
* Tillotson
Dire; distressing.
(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(lb) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Sorely.
*1919 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs),
*:[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
* Sir Walter Scott
A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
A young buck in its fourth year.
mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
In obsolete terms the difference between soe and sore
is that soe is a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people while sore is criminal; wrong; evil.As an adjective sore is
causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.As an adverb sore is
very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).As a verb sore is
mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.soe
English
Noun
(en noun)- " no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe -fuls"
sore
English
(wikipedia sore)Adjective
(er)- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
- The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
- Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
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Derived terms
* sight for sore eyes * sorely * soreness * sore pointAdverb
(-)Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Noun
(en noun)- They put ointment and a bandage on the sore .
- I see plainly where his sore lies.
