thow

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A form of thou — To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.

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Meanings

thow1

pronoun
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of thou.

thow2

verbthow (third-person singular simple present thows, present participle thowing, simple past and past participle thowed)

present singular third person thows · participle present thowing · participle past thowed · past thowed

  1. ScotlandalternativeAlternative form of thaw.

    JENNY pretends an Errand Hame, / Young ROGER draps the reſt, / To vvhiſper out his melting Flame, / And thovv his Laſſie's Breaſt.

    1725, Allan Ramsay, “Prologue”, in The Gentle Shepherd; a Scots Pastoral Comedy, Edinburgh: […] Mr. Tho[mas] Ruddiman, for the author, […], and by Mr. Thomas Longman […], and Mr. James M‘Ewin, […], and by Mr. Alexander Carmichael […], →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 44
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    I led him ben but any pingle, / And beekt him bravvly at my ingle; / Dighted his face, his handies thovv'd, / 'Til his young cheeks, like roſes, glovv'd.

    1728, Allan Ramsay, “An Anacreontick on Love”, in Poems, [Edinburgh?]: [s.n.], published 1760, →OCLC, page 278
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