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Woe vs Wor - What's the difference?

woe | wor |

As nouns the difference between woe and wor

is that woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity while wor is large bag, sack.

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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    wor

    English

    Pronoun

  • (Geordie) Regional variant of our.
    • If ye gannin out the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy

    Derived terms

    * wor kid (Geordie) * wor lass (Geordie)

    Anagrams

    * English first person pronouns