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Saw en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a sawyer, from saw. Compare Sawyer. * Borrowed from Hindi साव (sāv); this surname is predominantly found in Jharkhand state. * Borrowed from Burmese စော (cau:), a nickname meaning "honorable".

Meanings

1. A surname.

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Saw en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) A Bahamian.
   • Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd. 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 154:

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