vew

vew (plural vews)

1. Obsolete form of view.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Now leading him into a secret shade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heavens vew […]

vew

1. Alternative form of vewe

• vewe

From Middle English vewe, from Old English fēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *fau.

• IPA^(key): /vuː/
• Homophone: vo

vew

1. few
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:

     Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe aam 'twode snite.

     They kicked and rolled, the few that appeared.

• 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 75