haw
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
haw
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA(key): /hɔː/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American, US) IPA(key): /hɔː/
- Rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).
InterjectionEdit
haw
- 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!
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
- The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
- An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
- 1720, William Congreve, An Impossible Thing
- Hums or haws.
- 1720, William Congreve, An Impossible Thing
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)
- To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
Derived termsEdit
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”).
NounEdit
haw (plural haws)
- Fruit of the hawthorn.
- Synonym: hawthorn berry
- (historical) A hedge.
- (obsolete) Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
- 1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act II:
- wele not leaue a man of lawe,
Nor a paper worth a hawe,
And make him worſe than a dawe,
That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.
Derived termsEdit
- apple haw (Crataegus aestivalis)
- black haw
- crimson haw (Crataegus biltmoriana)
- downy haw
- hawthorn
- hog's haw (Crataegus brachyacantha)
- mayhaw (Crataegus aestivalis)
- parsley haw (Crataegus marshallii)
- pear haw (esp. Crataegus tomentosa)
- possum haw
- purple haw (Condalia obovata)
- red haw
- rose haw
- scarlet haw (esp. Crataegus biltmoriana)
- Shawnee haw (Vibrnum nudum)
- summer haw (Crataegus aestivalis)
- swamp haw (Viburnum nudum)
TranslationsEdit
|
Etymology 3Edit
Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)[1]
InterjectionEdit
haw
- An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
- Coordinate term: gee
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)
- (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
- This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
- Antonym: gee
- 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
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1889–91, “haw”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 977635331:
Etymology 4Edit
Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.[1]
NounEdit
haw (countable and uncountable, plural haws)
- (countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
- (uncountable) 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)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1889–91, “haw”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 977635331:
AnagramsEdit
JingphoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Burmese ဟော (hau:).
VerbEdit
haw
- to preach
ReferencesEdit
- Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research[1], volume 35, DOI: , ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128
KalashaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Sanskrit हल (hala), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₁ol-. Cognate with Lithuanian žúolis.
NounEdit
haw
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
haw
- Alternative form of hawe
ScanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
haw n (definite singular haweð, plural haw)
Derived termsEdit
ZhuangEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /haɯ˨˦/
- Tone numbers: haw1
- Hyphenation: haw
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
haw (Sawndip forms 𰁴 or 𫣞 or ⿰土黑, 1957–1982 spelling həɯ)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Chinese 虛 (MC hɨʌ).
AdjectiveEdit
haw (1957–1982 spelling həɯ)