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bove.

Above.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

prep/bʌv/
  1. Above.

    colloquial · dialectal
Where this word comes from

Probably an apheretic form of above. Alternatively, this word may continue Middle English bove, boven, from Old English bufan, from Proto-West Germanic *biobanā, from *bi (“by”) + *ufanā (“from above”). Compare West Frisian boppe, Dutch boven and Low German baven, boven.

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