jow
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
jow (uncountable)
- Alternative form of jhow (“kind of tamarisk”)
Etymology 2
Noun
jow (plural jows)
- (historical) A pre-metric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch
Alternative forms
Etymology 3
Verb
jow (third-person singular simple present jows, present participle jowing, simple past and past participle jowed)
- (Scotland, transitive) To ring or toll (a bell).
Etymology 4
Verb
jow
- (India, obsolete, imperative) Go away; begone.
- 1861, M. A. Wallace-Dunlop, Rosalind Harriet Maria Wallace-Dunlop Inverarity, The Timely Retreat from India, Before the Mutinies (page 163)
- This is always the way in India: the servant assures you that what you require is not procurable […] you politely reply, "Jow" (go away), and in nine cases out of ten he will return with the desired article; […]
- 1927, Alfred Claude Brown, The Ordinary Man's India, page 88:
- He angrily tells the crowd to jow (go away), and the nearest of them sheer off a few paces, […]
- 1861, M. A. Wallace-Dunlop, Rosalind Harriet Maria Wallace-Dunlop Inverarity, The Timely Retreat from India, Before the Mutinies (page 163)
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Middle English
Noun
jow
- Alternative form of Jew
Scots
Verb
jow (third-person singular simple present jows, present participle jowin, simple past jowt, past participle jowt)
- (ambitransitive) To ring or toll (a bell).
Noun
jow (plural jows)
- A stroke of a bell.
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