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Definition haw

Etymology 1

Imitative

Interjection

haw

1. An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
2. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

From 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 *kag?om (compare Welsh cae (“hedge”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian ??? (koš, “tent”), ??????? (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit ???? (kak?a, “curtain wall”)), from *kag?- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”), Albanian kam, ke (“to have, hold”)).

Noun

haw (plural haws)

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

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Interjection

haw

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

Verb

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

Etymology 4

Uncertain.

Noun

haw (plural haws)

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

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