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intj
An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
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intj
An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
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intj
An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
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name
A topographic and patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
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name
A river in the US state of North Carolina.
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noun
Fruit of the hawthorn.
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Synonyms: hawthorn berry
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noun
A hedge.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
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Usage: countable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A disease of the nictitating membrane.
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Usage: uncountable
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verb
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
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verb
To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
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Antonyms: gee
verb
To cause (an animal) to turn left.
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noun
the nictitating membrane of a horse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nictitating membrane, third eyelid
noun
a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hawthorn
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: parsley haw, parsley-leaved thorn, Crataegus apiifolia, Crataegus marshallii, scarlet haw, Crataegus biltmoreana, blackthorn, pear haw, pear hawthorn, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, cockspur thorn, cockspur hawthorn, Crataegus crus-galli, mayhaw, summer haw, Crataegus aestivalis, whitethorn, English hawthorn, may, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, Crataegus monogyna, red haw, downy haw, Crataegus mollis, Crataegus coccinea mollis, evergreen thorn, Crataegus oxyacantha, Crataegus pedicellata, Crataegus coccinea
verb
utter `haw'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
History
From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).
Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)
From Old English haga (“enclosure”). Also a back-formation from Middle English Hawkin, a diminutive of Harry or of a given name meaning "a hawk". Doublet of Haig.
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 (“field”), 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”).
Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.
Across languages
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