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See also: -ouse
English
Verb
ouse (third-person singular simple present ouses, present participle ousing, simple past and past participle oused)
Anagrams
Chuukese
Etymology
Pronoun
ouse
- you (plural) do not
Adjective
ouse
- you (plural) are not
- you (plural) were not
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Portuguese
Verb
ouse
- inflection of ousar:
Yola
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English ūs, from Old English ūs.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ouse
- us
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
- Ha deight ouse var gabble, tell ee zin go t'glade.
- You have put us in talk, 'till the sun goes to set.
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
- Come w' ouse, gosp Learry, theezil an Melchere;
- Come with us, gossip Larry, yourself and Miles;
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:
- Ayenst zim vartful ropeare at a rumcht ouse avar.
- Against some wanton ranter that has raved (at) us before.
Derived terms
- gu es (“give us”)
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 60
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