† whannow, int. Obs.
Also wannowe.
[? f. what + now. Cf. whau, which is similarly used.]
What! I say! Come, come!
| c 1450 Northern Passion (MS. Addit.) 147/59* ‘Wannowe’, sayde kayme, ‘her es Envy; My smoke gose down and thyne gose hye.’ c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxviii. 184 Thomas. Whannow, peter! art thou mad? |