ewe
/joʊ̯/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.79 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
noun
An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.
noun
Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Most Ewes are farmers or fishermen, although a growing number are urban dwellers living in Accra, Lomé, and other cities. The Ewes are a patrilineal people, with inheritance passing from father to son."
- "A person from Ho, like all Ewes, attaches great importance to a friendly greeting."
- "Among the Ewes, and equally among other language and ethnic groups in Ghana, names form an integral part of people’s identity."
- "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 of Deathly Hallows."
- "'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 World."
Etymology
From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”). Cognates See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue; also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avi̇̀s (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /joʊ̯/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
black ewe
ewe cat
ewe lamb
ewe neck
ewe-necked
hippo birdie two ewe
Wiktionary’s coverage of Ewe terms