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Swoe vs Woe - What's the difference?

swoe | woe |

As nouns the difference between swoe and woe

is that swoe is a kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges while woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

As an adjective woe is

(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.

swoe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges.
  • * 1966 , The Rose Annual
    • I approached the new light hoes, swoes and other garden tools with some degree of scepticism, feeling that weight aided the cutting down operation. After two summers I am quite converted, especially as I am two years older.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 26, author=Anne Raver, title=Recognizing Those Who Keep Brooklyn in Bloom, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=(She told me I must buy a swoe , a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.) }}

    woe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • * Milton
    • Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [They] weep each other's woe .
  • A curse; a malediction.
  • * South
    • Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

    Derived terms

    * in weal or woe * woeful * woe is me

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
  • * Robert of Brunne
    • His clerk was woe to do that deed.
  • * Chaucer
    • Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
  • * Spenser
    • And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .

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