yaw-haw
English edit
Etymology edit
Imitative
Noun edit
- A loud, coarse laugh.
- 1965, George Rawlings Poage, Henry Clay and the Whig Party:
- […] it was greeted with "a loud, tremendous yaw haw from all quarters," […]
Verb edit
yaw-haw (third-person singular simple present yaw-haws, present participle yaw-hawing, simple past and past participle yaw-hawed)