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Woe vs Wop - What's the difference?

woe | wop |

As nouns the difference between woe and wop

is that woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity while wop is (uk|us|slang|derogatory|ethnic slur) a person of italian descent.

As an adjective woe

is (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.

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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    wop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
  • Synonyms

    * (person of Italian descent) dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wog

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