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Word entry · 2 letters

wo

Best crossword clue

"woe, archaic"

2 letters · collected on this word page

2 lettersPronunciation /wo/Sorted owStarts with WEnds with O2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A falconer's call to a hawk.

Word origin

From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.

Used in a sentence

  • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!
  • He stands ahint our wo.
  • Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame, An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo : Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar, So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.

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01woe, archaic2 letters
02Old word for sorrow2 letters

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