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haw

UK/hɔː/ US/hɔː/ uncommon obsolete
noun (2) verb (1)

noun

1.

a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus

Synonyms
2.

the nictitating membrane of a horse

verb

1.

utter `haw''

  • “he hemmed and hawed”

Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • apple haw
  • black haw
  • crimson haw
  • downy haw
  • gee and haw
  • gee haw whimmy diddle
  • haw and gee
  • haw and gee about
  • Haw Creek
  • haw tree
  • hee haw
  • hog's haw

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