haw

See also: Haw and Haw.

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /hɔː/
• (General American, US) IPA^(key): /hɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Etymology 1Edit

Imitative

InterjectionEdit

haw

1. An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).

   You think that song was good? Haw!

2. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
   • Congreve

     Hums or haws.

Usage notesEdit

• (an imitation of laughter): In the US, the spelling haw is rare, with ha being more common.

TranslationsEdit

an imitation of laughter

• Dutch: ha (nl)

• Finnish: hah (fi)

VerbEdit

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

1. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

Derived termsEdit

• hum and haw, hem and haw

Etymology 2Edit

Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kaghon (compare Welsh cae (“hedge”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian кош (koš, “tent”), коша́ра (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “curtain wall”)), from *kaghe/o 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”), Albanian kam, ke (“to have, hold”)).

NounEdit

haw (plural haws)

1. Fruit of the hawthorn.
2. (historical) A hedge.

TranslationsEdit

fruit of hawthorn

• Armenian: ալոճ (hy) (aloč)
• Bulgarian: глогина f (glogina)
• Dutch: meidoornbes
• Finnish: orapihlajanmarja

• French: cenelle (fr) f
• Georgian: კუნელი (ḳuneli)
• Japanese: 山査子 (ja)の (ja)実 (ja) (sanzashi no mi)
• Norman: bague f

hedge

• Dutch: haag (nl)

• French: haie (fr) f

Etymology 3Edit

Unknown

InterjectionEdit

haw

1. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.

TranslationsEdit

an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver

VerbEdit

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

1. (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.

   This horse won't haw when I tell him to.

2. To cause (an animal) to turn left.

   You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.

Derived termsEdit

• gee haw whimmy diddle
• haw and gee, haw and gee about

AntonymsEdit

• (to turn right): gee
• (to cause to turn right): gee

Etymology 4Edit

Uncertain.

NounEdit

haw (plural haws)

1. (anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haw in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

AnagramsEdit

• Wah, wah, wha

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West FrisianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /haf/

VerbEdit

haw

1. first person present-tense form of hawwe
2. imperative form of hawwe

See alsoEdit

• ha