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Yore vs Yowe - What's the difference?

yore | yowe |

As nouns the difference between yore and yowe

is that yore is area while yowe is (archaic|dialect|uk|scotland) a ewe; a female sheep.

As a pronoun yowe is

(archaic).

yore

English

Noun

(-)
  • (poetic) time long past
    • This word comes from the days of yore .

    Usage notes

    A ; not used outside the phrase (of yore), especially the idiom days of yore.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
  • * Spenser
    • Which though he hath polluted oft and yore , / Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.

    Anagrams

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    yowe

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
  • * 1902 , James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish
    • The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.

    Etymology 2

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (archaic)
  • * 1440', Letter, '''1841 , Joseph Stevenson (editor), ''The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham , page 116,
    • Wirshipfull sir, I commend me to yowe'; thankyng '''yowe''' of all tendirnesse and labour of lang time shewid to my brether and our cell of Coldyngham, prayand ' yowe of yowr goode continuance.
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