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• sow — English has two words sow, both of which go back to the Old English period. The verb, ‘put seeds in the ground’, comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sǣjan, which also produced German säen, Dutch zaaien, Swedish så, and Danish saa. It was formed… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• sow — English has two words sow, both of which go back to the Old English period. The verb, ‘put seeds in the ground’, comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sǣjan, which also produced German säen, Dutch zaaien, Swedish så, and Danish saa. It was formed… …   Word origins

• sow —    The Oxford English Dictionary has a number of quotations showing ‘sow’ being used vocatively as a term of abuse for a fat, lazy woman. In Kes, by Barry Hines, it is used by a young boy to his brother, who is in a drunken sleep at the time:… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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