faw
See also: Faw
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Interjection edit
faw
- Alternative form of faugh
- 1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 36:
- "It's a complicated thing, though, isn't it." "Faw!" Churchill said.
- 2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence:
- “If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
“Faw,” he said. “And tush.”
Etymology 2 edit
Phonetic rendering of for.
Preposition edit
faw
- Pronunciation spelling of for; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
- 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234:
- “ […] Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin′ at me faw?”
Etymology 3 edit
From the surname Faa.
Noun edit
faw (plural faws)
- A gypsy.
See also edit
- fee-faw-fum (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English fawe, faȝe, from Old English fāg, fāh (“coloured; stained; dyed; tinged; shining; variegated”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (“coloured; motley”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to mark, paint, colour”).
Adjective edit
faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)
- Of various colours; variegated