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English

Etymology

From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.

Noun

plew (plural plews)

1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt
   • 1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96

     The cured "plew" of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous

   • 2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe page 7

     "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.

   • 2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, Page 46

     The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a plew or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen plews apiece,

Anagrams

• Welp, welp

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?f/

Noun

plew f

1. genitive plural of plewa

English

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /pju?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: Pugh

Etymology 1

From Middle English pewe, borrowed from Middle French puie (“balustrade”), from Latin podia, plural of podium (“parapet, podium”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (pódion, “little foot”), from ???? (poús, “foot”). Doublet of podium.

Noun

pew (plural pews)

1. One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.

2. An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.
   • 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers", The New York Times [1]

     At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, firefighters in dress blues and white gloves escorted families to the pews for a memorial service, led by Mr. Bloomberg, to honor the 343 Fire Department employees killed on 9/11.

3. Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.
   • 1659, John Milton, Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the Church, London: L. Chapman,^[2]

     the sheep in their pews

4. (colloquial, humorous) A chair; a seat.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pew (third-person singular simple present pews, present participle pewing, simple past and past participle pewed)

1. To furnish with pews.

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Etymology 2

Possibly from French putois (“skunk”) or puer (“to stink”) or a clipping of putrid.

Alternative forms

• P U, P.U., peeyoo, phew

Interjection

pew

1. An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor.

Translations

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pew

1. Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• EWP, WEP, wep