haw

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /hɔː/    美 /hɔː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fruit of the hawthorn.
    — The kanary-nut may be considered equal to a hazel-nut, but I have met with nothing else superior to our crabs, our haws, beech-nuts, wild plums, and acorns; fruits which would be highly esteemed by the natives of these islands, and would form an important part of their sustenance.
  2. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. countable
  3. A hedge. historical
  4. A disease of the nictitating membrane. uncountable
  5. Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot. obsolete
    — wele not leaue a man of lawe, Nor a paper worth a hawe, And make him worſe than a dawe, That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.
动词 v.
  1. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
  2. To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
    — This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
  3. To cause (an animal) to turn left.
    — You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.
感叹词 intj.
  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 instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
  3. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
    — Hums or haws.

词形变化

haws present,singular,third-person hawing participle,present hawed participle,past hawed past haws plural haws present,singular,third-person hawing participle,present hawed participle,past hawed past haws plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)
词源 4
Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.
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