ew
or eww
[ioo]
- (used as an exclamation expressing disgust, aversion, or the like): Ew, I hate mushrooms!
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EW
- enlisted woman; enlisted women.
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Contemporary Examples
When EW brought up the conversation with Garfield to Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, the director cut them off.
Now, the cycle of “ew” will continue, when Brutsch appears on CNN for an interview with Anderson Cooper this Thursday.
Channing Tatum channeled his inner teenybopper alongside Jimmy Fallon for the latest installment of ‘Ew!’
But riding the “roller coaster,” as Ariel Schulman puts it, of anonymous DIY filmmaker to EW poster boy has been heady.
Historical Examples
The ew in new is a sample of what may be called an unsteady or unstable combination.
The English LanguageRobert Gordon Latham
Only a ew days after her visit to Mrs. Jocelyn came a package, a large, flat, nearly square package.
Polly of the Hospital StaffEmma C. Dowd
It treated only of the colonization of ew England:—and that only stood on its title-page.
EW of all the groups of birds have such decided markings, such characteristic distinctions, as the Owl.
Knarf sah nugeb gninrael Nital ew deef eht Nibor yreve gninrom.
The Letters of Jane AustenJane Austen
EW
- Estonia (international car registration)
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Word Origin
from E(esti) W(abariik)
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