different between ower vs cower

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English owere, o?ere, awer, equivalent to owe +? -er.

Noun

ower (plural owers)

1. A person who owes something, especially money.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.

Preposition

ower

1. (Tyneside) over

   Get ower thor noo!

Adverb

ower (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) over

   She's ower canny hor, like

Adjective

ower (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) overly, too

   Thats ower much that!

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Anagrams

• Rowe, WORE, owre, wore

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?v?/

Adverb

ower

1. Alternative form of awer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ower

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

ower

1. (chiefly early) Alternative form of youre

References

• “your, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

Scots

Adverb

ower (not comparable)

1. (South Scots) over

   If ee gaun ower the hill ee'll sei eet.

   If he gone over the hill, he will see it.

Adjective

ower (not comparable)

1. (South Scots) too

   That's ower much for mei, like!

   That's too much for me, like!

Yola

Alternative forms

• oer

Etymology

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar.

Preposition

ower

1. over

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cowre, couren, curen, from Middle Low German kûren (“to lie in wait; linger”) or from North Germanic (Icelandic kúra (“to doze”)). Cognate with German kauern (“to squat”), Dutch koeren (“to keep watch (in a cowered position)”), Serbo-Croatian kutriti (“to lie in a bent position”). Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.

   He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

   • 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox", in Fables, Ancient and Modern, published March 1700:

     Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:

     Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
     May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The mother bird had mov’d not,
     But cowering o’er her nestlings,
     Sate confident and fearless,
     And watch’d the wonted guest.

3. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

Translations

See also

• coward
• cowardice

Etymology 2

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

Anagrams

• Crowe