gow

See also: Gow

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gow (plural gows)

1. Alternative form of jow (“pre-metric unit of length in India”)

Etymology 2

From Chinese 膏 (gāo, “ointment”), probably as a shortening of 藥膏／药膏 (yàogāo).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ/

Noun

gow (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, dated) opium

See also

etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "gow"

• har gow
• pai gow

 

Anagrams

• WOG, WoG, Wog, wog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English girl.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡo/

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Noun

gow f (plural gows)

1. (slang) a girl, chick

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish gaibid (“lays hold of, grasps”).

Verb

gow (verbal noun goaill)

1. (transitive)
   1. take, get
      1. catch, capture, apprehend, arrest, affect, engage
      2. (medicine) contract (as disease)
2. (intransitive)
   1. imperative of immee

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gow	ghow	ngow
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Pronoun

gow

1. Alternative form of yow

Yola

Verb

gow

1. Alternative form of goe
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 5:

     Wu canna baar to gow aveel,

     We cannot bear to go abroad,

   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 9:

     Wu canna gow to Ilone vaar,

     We cannot go to the Island fair,

   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 13:

     Wu canna gow bee chapaal gaat,

     We cannot go to the chapel gate

   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 17:

     Wu'll gow our wys to Chour Hill,

     We'll go our ways to Chour Hill,

   • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 6:

     "If thou dinna gow on chul daf thee yola skien."

     "If you don't go on I'll strip your old skin."

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland