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vower
English
Etymology
vow +? -er
Noun
vower (plural vowers)
- One who makes a vow.
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Anagrams
- revow
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Etymology
From Middle English four, from Old English f?ower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar. Cognates include English four and Scots fower.
Numeral
vower
- four
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
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cower
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)
- (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.
- (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
- Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
- 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.
- The mother bird had mov’d not,
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
- (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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
Anagrams
- Crowe
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