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.

is (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.

(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?

* in weal or woe * woeful * woe is me

(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 .

(en noun)

(UK, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

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