haw

See also: Haw, Haw., hAw, and HAw

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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.
Usage notesEdit
  • (an imitation of laughter): In the US, haw is rare (it was more used in the past), with ha being more common.
TranslationsEdit

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.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”), Norwegian Bokmål hage (“garden”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (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 *kagʰ- '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.
    Synonym: hawthorn berry
  2. (historical) A hedge.
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Etymology 3Edit

Unknown.

InterjectionEdit

haw

  1. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left (See gee).
TranslationsEdit

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.
    Antonym: gee
  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.
    Antonym: gee
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

Uncertain.

NounEdit

haw (plural haws)

  1. (anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
  2. A disease of the 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

JingphoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Burmese ဟော (hau:)

VerbEdit

haw

  1. to preach

ReferencesEdit

  • Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[1], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

KalashaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Sanskrit हल (hala), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₁ol-. Cognate with Lithuanian žúolis.

NounEdit

haw

  1. plough

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

haw

  1. Alternative form of hawe

ScanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

haw n (definite singular haweð, plural haw)

  1. sea

Derived termsEdit

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