ewe

UK /juː/ US /joʊ̯/

noun 3name 1adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

recurrent, rejected, rejected, stubborn

VERB + EWE

am, held, hold, love, milk, milking, milks, sheared

EWE + NOUN

chloe, colostrum, fanfics, fics, goat, lamb, rima

PREP.

from, out, with, with

ADV.

comely

Definitions

noun

A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.

This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

name

The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.

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Example Bank

This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

Wiktionary

A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication

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'EWE' (Epilogue-What Epilogue?) fics are similar to some AU stories in that they ignore the often-disliked epilogue of Rowling's Deathly Hallows, and instead create their own future of the Wizarding W

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Bringing beloved characters back to life is one of the most recurrent elements of EWE fics, […]

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And thus the lion fell in love with the ewe.

Tatoeba · #980053

I am shearing the ewe.

Tatoeba · #1665950

Usage Notes

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In some senses, ewe is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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