haw

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

Imitative

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.

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

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.

• hum and haw, hem and haw

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”)).

haw (plural haws)

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

Unknown

haw

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

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.

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

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

Uncertain.

haw (plural haws)

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

• Wah, wah, wha

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

haw

1. plough

haw

1. Alternative form of hawe

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

• IPA^(key): [hɑ́ː]

haw n (definite singular haweð, plural haw)

1. sea

• hawblikk
• hawbørw
• hawfroan
• hawmáka
• hawpadda