wos

wos

1. Eye dialect spelling of was.
   • 1876, Edward Everett Hale, “Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume XII, number 1, page 20:

     She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.

2. (Mid-Ulster) was
   • 1983, William Forbes Marshall, John the Liar:

     But there wos John, he had his two han's up,

• OSW, OWS, SOW, Sow, sow

• wås

From Old High German waz, hwaz, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Cognate with German was, Silesian East Central German woas (was), Dutch wat, English what, Danish hvad.

• IPA^(key): /vɔːs/, /βɔːs/, , ,

wos

1. (interrogative) what

   Wos gibts'n heid z'Mittåg? ― What's for lunch today?

2. (relative) which (referring to the entire preceding clause)

   Sie is a guade Tänzerin, wos er bewundert. ― She is a good dancer, which he admires.

3. (relative) that, which (referring to des, ois, ollas, wos/wås, nix, and neuter substantival adjectives)

   Des is nix, wos ma ned repariern ko. ― This is nothing that you can't fix.

   Er håd ois gsågt, wos er waß. ― He has told everything that he knows.

4. (relative, chiefly East Central Bavarian) that, which, who, whom (referring to any term in the preceding clause)

   Synonym: (West Central) wo

   Des is de Frau, wos i gsehn håb. ― This is the woman who I saw.

   Koatn gibt's åm Schoiter, wos då hintn is. ― Tickets are available at the counter which is back there.

5. (relative, East Central Bavarian) (inserted after the relative pronouns der, de, des, dem, den, dena, dera

   Synonym: (West Central) wo

   Des is de Frau, de wos i gsehn håb. ― This is the woman who I saw.

   Koatn gibt's åm Schoiter, der wos då hintn is. ― Tickets are available at the counter which is back there.

6. (indefinite) something, anything

   I håb wos gfunden. ― I've found something.

7. (interrogative) why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)

   Wos håst des gmåcht? ― Why on earth did you do that?

The word is related to wus, wuss (“wasp”).

wos

1. bee

wos

1. Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦱ꧀

wos f inan (diminutive woska)

1. Superseded spelling of wós.

wos

1. Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwos/

wos

1. reef

• IPA^(key): /woːs/

From Proto-West Germanic *wōs, from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Middle Low German wose (“foam; froth”), Old English wāse (“marsh; mire”).

wōs n (nominative plural wōs)

1. juice, sap; moisture
   • Leech Book, Leech Book, Volume I, Fiveleaf, or Cinquefoil. III.

     Wiþ ǣlces dæġes mannes tȳddernysse inneweardes, nime þonne weġbrǣdan, dō on wīn and sūp þ wōs and et þā weġbrǣdan; ðonne dēah hit wið ǣġhwylcre innancundre unhǣlo.

     For every days tenderness of a man inwardly, let him take then waybread, put it in wine, and sip the juice and eat the waybread; then it is good for any inward unheal (infirmity).

• wēsan

• Middle English: wos, wose
  • English: ooze, wooze

Inflected forms.

wōs

1. genitive singular of wōh

wos

1. sentinel