blowe
See also: Blowe
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
See blow (etymology 1)
Verb edit
blowe (third-person singular simple present blowes, present participle blowing, simple past blewe, past participle blowne)
Etymology 2 edit
See blow (etymology 3)
Verb edit
blowe
- (obsolete) past participle of blow (to flower, blossom)
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English blāwan.
Verb edit
blowe
- Alternative form of blowen (“to blow”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English blōwan.
Verb edit
blowe
- Alternative form of blowen (“to blossom”)
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English blow.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
blowe
- stroke
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 84:
- Chote well aar aim was t'yie ouz n'eer a blowe.
- I saw (well) their intent was to give us ne'er a stroke.
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:
- Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,
- Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- blay (“to blow”)
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84