gove

See also: Gove

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəʊv/
  • Rhymes: -əʊv

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

gove (plural goves)

  1. (obsolete) A mow; a rick for hay.
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
      Gove just in the barn, it is out of despair

Etymology 2

Verb

gove (third-person singular simple present goves, present participle goving, simple past and past participle goved)

  1. To stare stupidly.

References

  • The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

gove

  1. past participle of gyva
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