thow

thow

English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

thow

  1. Obsolete spelling of thou.

Etymology 2

Verb

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

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of thaw.
    • 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:
      JENNY pretends an Errand Hame, / Young ROGER draps the reſt, / To vvhiſper out his melting Flame, / And thovv his Laſſie's Breaſt.
    • 1728, Allan Ramsay, “An Anacreontick on Love”, in Poems, [Edinburgh?]: [s.n.], published 1760, →OCLC, page 278:
      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.

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