ower

From Middle English owere, oȝere, awer, equivalent to owe +‎ -er.

ower (plural owers)

1. A person who owes something, especially money.

From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.

ower

1. (Geordie) over

   Get ower thor noo!

ower (not comparable)

1. (Geordie) over

   She's ower canny hor, like

ower (not comparable)

1. (Geordie) overly, too

   Thats ower much that!

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “OWER”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “ower”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

• wore, Rowe, owre, Wroe, wero, WORE

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːvɐ/

ower

1. Alternative form of awer

ower

1. Alternative form of houre

ower

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of your

ower (not comparable)

1. (Southern Scots) over

   If ee gaun ower the hill ee'll sei eet.

   If he gone over the hill, he will see it.

ower (not comparable)

1. (Southern Scots) too

   That's ower much for mei, like!

   That's too much for me, like!

• oer, owr

From Middle English ower, owr, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːˈwiː/, /ɔː/
• Homophone: ar

ower

1. over

• yeeoure

• 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