"zowl" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: zowls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} zowl (plural zowls)
  1. (Berkshire dialect) Soul.
    Sense id: en-zowl-en-noun-R7L7hpeM Categories (other): Berkshire English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1850, John Yonge Akerman, Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends, page 108",
          "text": "Nothin like patience, as owld Rachael Cark used to zay ; — a body med do anything wi' patience, but 'a never could persuade her owld man zo, 'specially when 'a baked his breeches, poor owld zowl an bin!",
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          "text": "Her interest in him, he being a young Londoner and stranger, who had a real goold watch, and a real goold pin in his tie, was merely of that kind which would have led Fred, in his turn, to gaze upon a giraffe, or a phoenix, or anything of that kind; but it was, nevertheless, somewhat embarrassing at first; especially as this attendant jerked the baby up and down, on any symptoms of restlessness displaying themselves, and told the \" pratty zowl\" to look at the London gentleman.",
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          "ref": "1865, S. Lucas, Once a Week",
          "text": "The waggoner scratched his head, and quoth he, “ Eh, missus, what'll the measter say'l I be despert feared she've ' fainted, poor zowl ! ”",
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          "ref": "1901, Dugald Macfadyen, Alfred the West Saxon: King of English, page 17",
          "text": "There be backsword play, and climming the powl, And a race for a peg and a cheese, And us thenks as hisn 's a dummell zowl As dwont care for zich spwoorts as theze.\" — Berkshire ballad, sung at the scouring of the White Horse, and possibly very ancient.",
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