gow

See also: Gow

English

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"

Anagrams

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
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
gowghowngow
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, line 5:
      Wu canna baar to gow aveel,
      We cannot bear to go abroad,

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, page 131
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