different between wos vs wus

English

Verb

wos

1. Eye dialect spelling of was.
   • 1876, Edward Everett Hale, "Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'", Scribner's Monthly, Vol. XII, No. 1, page 20[1]:

     She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.

Anagrams

• OSW, OWS, Sow, sow

Catawba

Etymology

The word is related to wus, wuss (“wasp”).

Noun

wos

1. bee

Lower Sorbian

Noun

wos f (diminutive woska)

1. Superseded spelling of wós.

Declension

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wo?s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *w?s?, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Middle Low German wose (“foam; froth”), Old English w?se (“marsh; mire”).

Noun

w?s n (nominative plural w?s)

1. juice, sap; moisture

Declension

Related terms

• w?san

Descendants

• Middle English: wos, wose
  • English: ooze, wooze

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

w?s

1. genitive singular of w?h

Tok Pisin

Noun

wos

1. sentinel

English

Etymology 1

See wuss

Noun

wus (plural wusses)

1. Alternative spelling of wuss

Etymology 2

See wu

Noun

wus

1. plural of wu

Etymology 3

Eye dialect spelling of was.

Verb

wus

1. (African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of was.

   She wus walking home when it happened.

Anagrams

• USW, UWs, WSU

Catawba

Alternative forms

• wuss

Etymology

The word is related to wos (“bee”).

Noun

wus

1. wasp