edgrow
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɛdɡɹəʊ/
Definition of edgrow
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(obsolete, uncountable)Aftergrass; eddish.
“1699, July 29 — This week has produced much rain here; if the same be at Brampton, will not you please to order the grounds to be watered, which may produce good "edgrow."”
“Very fine Weather—remarkably hot & dry; the Shrubs languishing for Rain, the Edgrew all burn'd up—a fire in the upper Country amongst the Heaths, & they can't extinguish it for want of Water.”
“Similarly, Thomas Bowen of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, complained to Harris about the 'careless sayings' of a brother called Jones who at a society meeting in Montgomeryshire uttered words like the following: You shall be turn'd into the Clover, and afterwards into the Edgrow which was brought [= ? bought] with the blood of the Lamb: the Sun circulateth in the Blood of the Lamb.”
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Etymology
From Middle English edgrow, edgrowe, from Old English *edgrōwe (“regrowth”), from edgrōwan (“to grow back”), suggested by derivative edgrōwung (“a regrowing, a growing again”), equivalent to ed- + grow.
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