HAW

Definition: HAW

HAW

Intransitive verb

1. To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.

2. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

Noun

1. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.

2. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

3. The fruit of the hawthorn.

4. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

Transitive verb

1. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HAW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Haw \Haw\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Hawed; Hawing.]. (references)

HAW

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Irresolution

Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver

Qualification

Waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain); equivocate (sophistry).

Stammering

Verb: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.

Crosswords: HAW

Maya (to stop).

Yee haw! Ninja cowboy (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Hee Haw (1969)

Rupert of Hee Haw (1924)

Hee Haw Honeys (1978)

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References

• Haw Par Corporation Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Haw Par Healthcare Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• HAW PAR HEALTHCARE LTD.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Haw! (reference)

• Haw! Haw! Haw! Whooee (reference)

• The Haw Lantern (reference)

• Travels in Upper Laos and Siam, with an Account of the Chinese Haw Invasion and Puan Resistance (First English Translations) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Best Of The Hee Haw Gospel Quartet: Vol. 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Critical moments. I hear Cal's gittin' shave agin! Haw! Haw! fixin' t' take a certain ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "HAW": BLACK HAW ♦ downy haw ♦ Haw River ♦ hee haw ♦ hem and haw ♦ hem and haw be uncertain ♦ hum and haw ♦ parsley haw ♦ pear haw ♦ possum haw ♦ red haw ♦ rose haw ♦ scarlet haw ♦ summer haw ♦ To haw and gee ♦ To haw and gee about. Additional references.

Beginning with "HAW": haw-buck, haw-haw, haw-haw!.

Ending with "HAW": Church-haw, haw-haw, hee-haw, yee-haw.

Albanian

ngecje (flounder, locking, slack, stumble), murriz (hawthorn, thorn apple), belbëzoj (falter, flounder, splutter, stammer, stutter), belbëzim (flounder, splutter, stammering, stutter, titubation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الغشاء الغامس, ‏ثمر الزعرور البرى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хъкам (hem, hum and haw), хм (ahem, hem), трети клепач, глогина, глог (hawthorn, whitethorn), вик към коне за завиване наляво, обръщам се наляво. (various references)

Czech

hložinka. (various references)

Danish

æblerose (hep, hip, rose haw, rose hip). (various references)

French

euh, aubépine (hawthorn). (various references)

German

Hagebutte (Dogrose, hip, rose hip, rosehip). (various references)

Greek 

λευκάκανθρα (hawthorn), τραυλίζω (falter, gibber, lisp, splutter, stammer, stutter), διαταγή εισ ίππον να στρέψη αριστερά. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סס (boggle, falter, hesitate, hum and haw, vacillate, waver), ל�'מ�'ם (hum and haw, muffle, splutter, stammer, stutter), צחוק �'ס (hee haw), � עירת �"חמור (hee haw). (various references)

Hungarian

galagonya (hawthorn, may, quickset, whitethorn). (various references)

Italian

parlare esitando, esitazione (demur, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, qualm, shilly shally), bacca;esitazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

口� る (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble), 口篭る (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble), 口�"もる (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くち�"もる (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble). (various references)

Manx

skeag. (various references)

Pig Latin

awhay.(various references)

Portuguese

hesitar no falar, virar � esquerda, gaguejar (burble, falter, flounder, hem, stammer, stutter), gagueira, espinheiro (bramble, thorn, whitethorn), enxad�o (hack), devo��o, cerca viva (hedge, quickset). (various references)

Romanian

haisã, hais, mãceaşã (hip, hipberry), cum (although, as, because, directly, how, like, such as, what, what a .., whereby, wherewith, why), bolborosi (babble, bubble, falter out, gabble, gibber, gobble, mutter, sputter, stammer), împrejmuire (close, enclosure, environment, fencing). (various references)

Russian 

ограда (enclosure, fence, hedgerow, inclosure, pale, railing), боярышник (hawthorn, whitethorn), бормотание (burble, gabble, mumble, mumbling, mutter, muttering). (various references)

Scottish

sgeach (hawthorn berry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ograda (banister, dissociation, enclosure, fence, hedge, railing, reservation, reserve, ring fence), gloginja, glog (hawthorn). (various references)

Spanish

vacilar unos instantes (falter), membrana nictitante, baya de espino. (various references)

Swedish

humma (hem, hum), hm (hum, well), hagtornsbär, blinkhinna (nictitating membrane). (various references)

Thai

เสียงพู�"แส�"งความลังเล, ไม่แน่ใจเกี่ยวกับบางสิ่ง (hum and haw), ไม่แน่ใจเกี่ยวกับบางอย่าง (hem and haw), ผลไม้ของต้น hawthron ซึ่งเป็นพืชจำพวก Crataegus, ทำเสียงที่แส�"งความลังเล, คำอุทานแส�"งความลังเล. (various references)

Turkish

hımlamak (hem, hum), hım (ahem, humph), kem küm etmek (hum and haw, shuffle), kem küm, alıç (hawthorn, mayflower, whitethorn), akdiken (Buckthorn, Cockspur, hawthorn, may, quickset, whitethorn), üçüncü göz kapağı iltihabı, öhöm. (various references)

Ukrainian

хм (hem), глід (hawthorn), огорожа (balconet, barrier, enclosure, fence, fencing, inclosure, pale, rail, railing). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "HAW": hawed, hawfinch, hawfinches, hawing, hawk, hawkbill, hawkbills, hawked, hawker, hawkers, hawkey, hawkeyed, hawkeys, hawkie, hawkies, hawking, hawkings, hawkish, hawkishly, hawkishness, hawkishnesses, hawklike, hawkmoth, hawkmoths, hawknose, hawknoses, hawks, hawksbill, hawksbills, hawkshaw, hawkshaws, hawkweed, hawkweeds, haws, hawse, hawsehole, hawseholes, hawser, hawsers, hawses, hawthorn, hawthorns. (additional references)

Words ending with "HAW": bashaw, cashaw, chaw, cumshaw, cushaw, hawkshaw, heehaw, kickshaw, pshaw, rickshaw, rikshaw, scrimshaw, shaw, thaw, trishaw. (additional references)

Words containing "HAW": ballhawk, ballhawks, bashaws, cashaws, chawbacon, chawbacons, chawed, chawer, chawers, chawing, chaws, cumshaws, cushaws, dorhawk, dorhawks, goshawk, goshawks, heehawed, heehawing, heehaws, jayhawker, jayhawkers, kickshaws, newshawk, newshawks, nighthawk, nighthawks, pshawed, pshawing, pshaws, rickshaws, rikshaws, scrimshawed, scrimshawing, scrimshaws, shawed, shawing, shawl, shawled, shawling, shawls, shawm, shawms, shawn, shaws, thawed, thawer, thawers, thawing, thawless, thaws. (additional references)

Misspellings

"HAW" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahew, Ahw, eaw, hac, hai, haq, hau, hav, Hawd, hawe, hawf, hawl, hawn, hawt, hawz, heuw, Hewo, hewy, Hfa, houw, howf, howm, hwa, Hwal, hwar, hwat, hwaz, hwp, Kaw, Khaw, oaw, Ohkawa, uaw. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wha.

-1 letter: ah, aw, ha.

+1 letter: chaw, hawk, haws, hwan, shaw, thaw, wash, wham, whap, what, whoa.

+2 letters: awash, cahow, chaws, hawed, hawks, hawse, pshaw, schwa, shawl, shawm, shawn, shaws, swash, swath, thaws, thraw, wahoo, washy, watch, waugh, whack, whale, whamo, whams, whang, whaps, wharf, whats, whaup, wheal, wheat, wisha, wrath.

+3 letters: anyhow, aweigh, awhile, awhirl, bashaw, bushwa, cahows, cashaw, cashew, chawed, chawer, cushaw, hallow, haniwa, harrow, hawing, hawked, hawker, hawkey, hawkie, hawser, hawses, haymow, heehaw, howdah, kwacha, pshaws, rawish, rewash, schwas, shadow, shawed, shawls, shawms, swarth, swatch, swathe, swaths, thawed, thawer, thrawn, thraws, thwack, thwart, wahine, wahoos, wallah, warmth, washed, washer, washes, washup, waucht, waught, wealth, whacko, whacks, whacky, whaled, whaler, whales, whammo, whammy, whangs, wharfs, wharve, whaups, wheals, wheats, whenas, whidah, whydah, withal, wraith, wraths, wrathy, wreath.