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Yowie vs Yowe - What's the difference?

yowie | yowe |

As nouns the difference between yowie and yowe

is that yowie is an unidentified yeti-like animal said to exist in parts of Australia while yowe is a ewe; a female sheep.

As a pronoun yowe is

obsolete form of lang=en.

yowie

English

Noun

(yowies)
  • (Australia, cryptozoology) An unidentified yeti-like animal said to exist in parts of Australia.

    • See also

    * abominable snowman * Bigfoot * bunyip * min min lights * sasquatch * yeti

    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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