Archaic or dialectal term for evening, used poetically or in dialect to mean the coming of dusk.
From 'even' (evening) + 'o'' (euphonic connector) + Scottish/dialect 'oo' or 'owe' (augmentative or emphatic suffix). A regionalism particularly found in Scots English and archaic poetry.
This word survives mostly in Scottish dialect poetry and old ballads—it's the kind of word a character in a historical novel might use while watching the sunset over the moors.
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