jow

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Ef he war 'quainted with ye when he lived in this life, he mought hev stopped an' jowed sociable fur a spell How brave this small boy was in the cheerful sunshine Old Daddy hardly seemed impressed with the pleasure he had missed in losing a sociable "jow" with a ghostly crony.

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  1. An obsolete variant of jaw. Chaucer.
  2. To strike (a bell); toll; ring. [Scots.]
  3. To jow out to ring; set ringing, as a bell. If you'll just gar your servant jow out the great bell in the tower, there's me and my twa brothers … will be wi' you. Scott, Black Dwarf, ii.

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  • Speaking of Quinn directly, jow did he really look?
  • Housing and independence: jow innovative CILsfre breaking down the barriers for housing for people with disabilities. —  Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • Ef he war 'quainted with ye when he lived in this life, he mought hev stopped an' jowed sociable fur a spell How brave this small boy was in the cheerful sunshine Old Daddy hardly seemed impressed with the pleasure he had missed in losing a sociable "jow" with a ghostly crony. —  The Young Mountaineers Short Stories
  • If he hasn't ob-i-jow, however, he has tea, and in about an hour after my arrival he produces the samovar, a bowl of sugar, and the tiny glasses in which tea is always served in Persia Visitors begin dropping in as usual, and, before long, hundreds of villagers are swarming about the telegraph-khana, anxious to see me ride. —  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
  • "_Kiko kissywarsti_ don't you _hamsher argy jow? —  Verses 1889-1896
 

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  1. Said to be imitative; but prob. merely a Scots form of jowl, v.
  2. from jow, v.
 

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