单词 | gowa |
释义 | gowav. English regional (northern and East Anglian) in later use. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. 1. intransitive. imperative (originally subjunctive with jussive force). ‘Let us go.’ ΚΠ ?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) 252 Heueriche is redy to mon, Gouwe [printed gou we] þider, gouwe [printed gou we] anon. a1325 (?c1300) in Anniv. Papers Kittredge (1913) 110 (MED) Nou gawe hom, hit is fordays, Lengere ne tyd ȝou here no pays. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 105 Cookes..Cryen..‘Goode gees and grys Gowe dyne!’ a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) l. 2335 (MED) Cawe unto thy chambyr yfere. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 17 Late vs goo and auenge his deth Gowe & punysshe the malefacteur. 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. iv. f. 118v There are some that say, gowe let vs go to such a mans house, and there wee shall fynd play enowgh..: euen so these others say, gow, wee will go to such a chamber..wheare wee may talke liberally..without check or controll. 1577 A. Golding tr. T. de Bèze Trag. Abrahams Sacrifice 28 ‘Gowe.’.. ‘I will not be behind I trowe.’ 1619 G. Chapman Two Wise Men ii. iii. 28 Gow neighbour Rustico, you and I will hang together, and change together. 1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 4/1 in Παροιμιογραϕια Do not say go, but gaw, viz. go thy self along. 1669 D. North Observ. & Advices Œcon. xxviii. 50 Here the Master saith Go, but in small Families especially in the Countrey, the Master may say Gow (as we phrase it in East England) or go we, implying that he will accompany them. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Gawa, go we, let us go. 1792 J. Wilson Fisher's Gram. Improved 68 In some Places in the North, they give a first Person plural in the Imperative Mode to go, as, go we; in some Places vulgarly pronounced gowa. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gow, let us go... It implies, let us all go together. A farmer in Suffolk, speaking of the difference between the old farmers' wives and the modern ones, observed, ‘that when his mother called the maids at “milking-time”, she never said go, but gow’. 1879 F. M. Fetherston Oops & Doons T. Goorkrodger (new ed.) 152 I'm faairly clammed, gowa! a1882 W. Dickinson Uncoll. Lit. Remains (1888) 221 Come, goway down t' hill, an' let's hev thy crack. 2. intransitive. English regional (northern). To go in company (with the speaker). ΚΠ 1761 J. Reed Register-office i. 14 I went to my Cousin Isbell, an says I to her, Isbell says I, come will you goway to London? 1778 Charms of Chearfulness 213 An' then gow to Carill wi' me. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 1 Let's gow to Rosley Fair. 1881 W. Dickinson Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (E.D.S.) 2nd Suppl. at Gowa The industrious farmer says, ‘Come, gowa to yer wark wid me, lads.’ The indifferent farmer says, ‘Howay to yer wark, lads’, and leaves them to themselves. 1900 E. W. Prevost in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 659/1 [Cumberland] To a person about to leave, ‘Let's gowa’... Wull ta gowe wie me? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?a1300 |
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