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Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman vewe.
Pronunciation
Noun
vewe (plural vewes)
- An inspection, checkup, or examination, especially a legally ordained one.
- (Late Middle English) A scheduled minor court held in a local administrative district.
- (rare) A view or perspective.
- (rare) A stare, glance or look.
- (rare, Late Middle English) oversight, overseeing, direction, instruction
- (rare, Late Middle English) One's focus; what one is concentrating on.
Descendants
References
Old French
Noun
vewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural vewes, nominative singular vewe, nominative plural vewes)
- (Anglo-Norman) sight (ability to see)
- (Anglo-Norman) viewing; inspection
Verb
vewe f
- (Anglo-Norman) feminine singular of the past participle of veoir
References
Yola
Proper noun
vewe
- Alternative form of vew
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8:Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe aam 'twode snite.- They kicked and rolled, the few that appeared.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86