wore

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past of wear
  2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of wear
    Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore[…] 1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco[…], William Coleman, act III, page 19
    Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé[…] 1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125
    But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately. 4 August 1997, Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS, Hachette UK, page 138

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