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?
