ow
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ow"
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ow
- Synonym of ouch (“cry of pain”)
- (music) Used for emotional emphasis.
- 1970, Free, “All Right Now”:
- Now don't you wait or hesitate / Let's move before they raise the parking rate, ow!
- 1987, Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”:
- Then you ran into the bedroom / You were struck down / It was your doom, Annie / Ow!
Noun
[edit]ow (plural ows)
- An uttering of an 'ow'.
- 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 98:
- Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.
Usage notes
[edit]In everyday colloquial (spoken or written) usage, the sound may be lengthened, such as in the form oww, usually to indicate an increase in pain or distress.
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Chinook Jargon
[edit]Noun
[edit]ow
Coordinate terms
[edit]Cornish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Brythonic *wurt.
Alternative forms
[edit]- owth (used before vowels and h)
Particle
[edit]ow (triggers hard mutation)
- -ing (precedes verbal noun)
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Determiner
[edit]ow (triggers aspirate mutation)
- my (first person singular possessive determiner)
See also
[edit]number | person | independent (subject) |
suffixed | infixed | possessive (dependent) | |||
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enclitic | emphatic | reduced | ||||||
singular | first | my | vy | evy | ma, a | 'm | owA | |
second | ty | jy, sy1 | tejy | ta, a | 'thM | dhaS | ||
third2 | m | ev | ev | eev | va, a | 'n | yS | |
f | hi | hi | hyhi | N/A | 's | hyA | ||
plural | first | ni | ni | nyni | 'gan, 'n | agan, 'gan | ||
second3 | hwi | hwi | hwyhwi | 'gas, 's | agas, 'gas | |||
third | i | i | ynsi | 's | agaA, 'gaA |
1 Uncommon.
2 hun and ins have been suggested as non-binary 3rd person singular pronouns, though these have not yet officially adopted.
3 Infrequently used as a formal alternative to the singular.
S Triggers soft mutation A Triggers aspirate mutation M Triggers mixed mutation
Middle English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ow
- Alternative form of yow
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English o, the English name of the letter O / o.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔow/ [ˈʔoʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -ow
- Syllabification: ow
Noun
[edit]ow (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜏ᜔)
- Alternative form of o: the name of the Latin-script letter O/o, in the Filipino alphabet
- Synonym: (in the Abakada alphabet and the Abecedario) o
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi
Further reading
[edit]- “ow”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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- en:Music
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- en:Pain
- en:Vocalizations
- Chinook Jargon lemmas
- Chinook Jargon nouns
- chn:Family
- Cornish terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic
- Cornish terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
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- Cornish hard mutation triggers
- Cornish aspirate mutation triggers
- Middle English alternative forms
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/ow
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- tl:Latin letter names