Haw
Contents
English
Interjection
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!
Notes
- (an imitation of laughter): In the US, the spelling haw is rare, with ha being more common.
Noun
Haw (plural Haws)- Fruit of the hawthorn.
- (historical) A hedge.
Interjection
Haw
- An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn left.
Verb
Haw (third-person singular simple present Haws, present participle Hawing, simple past and past participle Hawed)
- (of an animal) To turn left.
- This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
- To cause (an animal) to turn left.
- You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.
Derived terms
Antonyms
Thesaurus
avert, bear off, draw aside, ease off, edge off, falter, fly off, gee, glance, glance off, go off, halt, head off, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hum, hum and haw, jib, make way for, mammer, move aside, sheer off, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, stammer, steer clear of, step aside, stumble, stutter, switch, turn aside, turn away, turn back, veer off
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology 1
Imitative
Etymology 2
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 koši, košára 'hurdle', Sanskrit 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').
Etymology 3
Unknown
Translations
Interjection
Noun
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Interjection
Anagrams
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /haf/
Verb form
Haw
