enow
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of enow
before 1050; Middle English inow, Old English genōg (variant of genōh enough ), conflated with Middle English inowe, Old English genōge, plural of genōg enough
Example Sentences
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It certainly does not have enow dancing or enow music.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were variously armed, as was to be expected with men who had been so abruptly summoned forth; but there were lances and steel caps enow and some had coats of mail.
From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay
"Small thanks is enow for what is left when your gorge rises at it,—with my humble submission."
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
Alweys ther was revel and wassail enow and to spare.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
Even now it pleases my ear well enow if the three are not so arranged as to elude it.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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