'low

UK, US/laʊ/

verb

To allow; to acknowledge or admit.

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Meanings

verb'low (third-person singular simple present 'lows, present participle 'lowing, simple past and past participle 'lowed)

present singular third person 'lows · participle present 'lowing · participle past 'lowed · past 'lowed

  1. UKUScolloquialdialectalTo allow; to acknowledge or admit.

    It be time I got in a word, I 'low.

    1900 June, Windsor Magazine, section 64
    3 more examples

    But louing well, and meaning not amisse, / He lowde him scope, without suspect of ill, / To come and goe, to vse the house as hys, / A perfect showe of very great good wyll.

    1587 (edition of 1837), George Turberville, Tragical Tales: And Other Poems, page 139

    […] and so with - drew / That freedome from her lookes (least they should 'low / More then her heart might meane) as they reflect / A narrower and a carefuller aspect.

    1609 (edition of 1885), Samuel Daniel, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose, page 320

    The Stranger: They call Los Angeles the City of Angels. I didn’t find it to be that exactly. Though I'll 'low there are some nice folks there.

    1998, The Big Lebowski

Origin

Apheretic form of allow.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with 'low

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APA

'low. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'low

MLA

“'low.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'low. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “'low,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'low.

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