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ewe
/ju/
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What does ewe mean?
noun
- A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
- An ethnic group who inhabit southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Ewe people or language.
More meanings (3)
noun
- Initialism of extreme wildfire event.
- (slang) Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.
proper noun
- The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.
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IPA pronunciation
/ju/
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When Arthur again turned to her, butting her as a lamb butts a ewe, Hewet and Rachel retreated without a word.
What's more, you called me "Mother's one ewe lamb," Bade me "refrain from swearing--for her sake-- Till I'm grown up" .
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The ewe, soon after, had two female kids, which were now so far grown as to be almost ready to propagate.
The pups when first born, are taken from the bitch, and put to a sucking ewe, already deprived of her own lamb.
Three fleeces were obtained—one that belonged to a large ram about four years old, another to a ewe about the same age, and another to a yearling lamb.