wos

See also: WOs, wós, woš, W.O.s, and Woś

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

Anagrams

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 superseded spelling of wós.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): /ˈwoːs/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

wōs n (nominative plural wōs)

  1. juice, sap; moisture
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle English: wos, wose

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

wos

  1. genitive singular of wōh

Tok Pisin

Noun

wos

  1. sentinel
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