wo
noun/wo/ · /wɔː/
Etymology 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.
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Derbyshire, Northern England, Dialectal A wall.
- He stands ahint our wo.1859, Thomas Moore, The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, ii. 9:
- 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'.1871, Benjamin Brierly, “Weaver of Wellbrook”, in William-Edward-Armitage Axon, editor, Folk-song and Folk-speech of Lancashire, page 53:
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- […] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 41:
- Plantit up agen t'wo1884, Jack Robison, Aald Tales ower Agen, section 4:
- Hoo's pluck of a lion an' faces her foe Wi' calm in her e'en an' her beck agen t' wo; Hoo's firm i' decision, stonds up for her reets1936, G. Halstead Whittaker, A Lancashire Garland of Dialect Prose and Verse, page 221