Definitions for Ewe

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Spelling: [yoo; Dialect yoh]
IPA: /yu; Dialect yoʊ/

Ewe is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in Ewe (eew).

Definitions for Ewe

noun

  1. a female sheep, especially when fully mature.
  2. a member of a people of Togo and Ghana, in western Africa.
  3. the Kwa language spoken by the Ewe people.

Origin of Ewe

before 1000; Middle English; Old English ēowu, ēwe; cognate with Old High German ou, ouwi, Dutch ooi, Latin ovis, Greek óïs, oîs, Sanskrit ávi

Examples for Ewe

The ewe, seized with fear, began turning about in the press as if in a riding-school.

If you saw a ewe robbed of her lamb, would you laugh, you brute?

One thing which they had not reckoned with, however, was the temper of the ewe.

It was upon the lamb and the ewe that they sprang, ignoring the ram contemptuously.

But now Austin had come and swooped off with his one ewe lamb.

A ewe emitted her one doleful note; another gave hers, sadly.

Let a ewe from another fold come in and they will scent her quick as lightning.

Her name, The New York Times noted, means “the human being is more precious than gold” in ewe.

He brought not just ewe to English, but a tribal embrace to the angst-ridden homeland of Billy Joel.

As he did so, the others heard him ewe utterance to a cry of astonishment.

Word Value for Ewe
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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