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Woz vs Woe - What's the difference?

woz | woe |

As nouns the difference between woz and woe

is that woz is wagon (four-wheeled cart for hauling loads) while woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

As a verb woz

is .

As an adjective woe is

(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.

woz

English

Verb

(head)
  • Intentional or eye-dialect misspelling of was.
  • * {{quote-book, 1893, , Susy: A Story of the Plains
    • , passage="You woz' saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you '''woz''' beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you ' woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 1894, , Discords citation
    • , passage='If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, , Country of the Blind, page=343 citation
    • , passage=We woz robbed, Brian. }}

    Derived terms

    * woz ere

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "woz") ----

    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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