Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who possesses; an owner.
  • noun One who owes or is in debt.
  • An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of over.

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  • preposition Geordie over
  • adverb Geordie over
  • adjective Geordie over, too
  • noun A person who owes money.

Etymologies

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From the verb to owe.

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Colloquial variant of over.

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Examples

  • The lawe of Engelonde is ower will and lieth in ower breest, knave.

    March 8th, 2007 hornbookfeed 2007

  • God an 'He's new in mine -- an' I prayed this mornin ', a thing I haena dune for mair than twenty years -- an' the auld burn was sweet an 'clear, like when my laddie's lips sippit there lang syne -- I daurna speak His name ower often, but God is gey guid to the sinfu' an 'the weary. "

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Ye wad be thinkin 'ye was i' yer bed whan ye was i 'the mids' o 'the middin', or pu'in 'the blankets o' the denk dub ower yer heid!

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • There was bonny colours, an 'bonny lichts, an' a bonny grit star hingin 'ower 't a', but it was nane o 'a' thae things; it was something deeper nor a ', an' heicher nor a '!

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • Whoy, O lor, Miss! that wur sa long back, and the walls sa thin, and the winders brokken, and the weather sa cowd, and my missus a-gittin 'ower' er lyin'-in.

    Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • Thus the idea of HUttnefs, as it is in the mind, exactly anfweri that f ower which is in any body to produce it there.

    An abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning human understanding 1782

  • August 19th, 2009 9: 57 am ET it is about time to use the ower

    WH may push through health care reform without Republicans 2009

  • Some of you act like this women is so superior that we are all so scared of her ower and emmsense knowledge of issue that we have to attack her.

    Axelrod: I'm not thinking about Palin's next move 2009

  • Before getting into why 43 governors, but not the U.S. president, have this p ower, a comment on those who say that impoundment is a pop-gun, that it can't control entitlements or mega-programs.

    Congress's Broken Windows Daniel Henninger 2011

  • While the basic technology for lithium-ion batteries has been around for a while, making the batteries safe enough to p ower cars has proved elusive.

    U.S., China Firms To Make Electric-Car Batteries in Ohio 2010

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