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woe | wo |

As nouns the difference between woe and wo

is that woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity while wo is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective woe

is woeful; sorrowful.

As an interjection wo is

a falconer's call to a hawk.

As a prefix Wo is

the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion.

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 .

    Anagrams

    *

    wo

    English

    (wikipedia wo)

    Alternative forms

    * whoa

    Etymology 1

    Variant of who .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A falconer's call to a hawk.
  • A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of woe .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
  • * (Hannah More)
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .

    Anagrams

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