Yeow vs Yew - What's the difference?
yeow | yew |
Expressing sudden pain or startlement.
* 1999 , Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living
* 1995 , Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City
(countable) A species of coniferous tree, , with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
(countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus .
Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus
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(uncountable) The wood of the such trees.
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A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
Made from the wood of the yew tree.
As an interjection yeow
is expressing sudden pain or startlement.As a noun yew is
(countable) a species of coniferous tree, , with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern europe, northwest africa, northern iran and southwest asia.As an adjective yew is
made from the wood of the yew tree.yeow
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Yeow ! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.
- "You see anything?" Yeow ! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.
