Doe vs Woe - What's the difference?
doe | woe |
A female deer; also used of similar animals such as reindeer, antelope, goat.
A female fallow deer.
A female rabbit.
A female hare.
A female squirrel.
A female kangaroo
* 1620 Mayflower Compact
grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A curse; a malediction.
* South
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
* Robert of Brunne
* Chaucer
* Spenser
As a proper noun doe
is a surname of english origin.As a noun woe is
grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.As an adjective woe is
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.doe
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (female deer) hind (female red deer) * (female kangaroo) blue flyer (female red kangaroo)Verb
(head)- ...a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God...
Anagrams
* ----woe
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
- [They] weep each other's woe .
- 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 meAdjective
(en adjective)- His clerk was woe to do that deed.
- Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
- And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .