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Yowe

//jaʊ// noun, pron

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Noun
  1. 1
    A ewe; a female sheep. Scotland, UK, dialectal

    "The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips."

Pronoun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of you. alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English yowe, yeue, variant forms of ewe, from Old English eowu. Compare doublet ewe and Scots yowe.

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