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haw-haw en · INTJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ha ha (“laughter”) (sometimes suggesting an upper-class British accent)
"Bless thy simplicity, Tess," said her companions. "He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!"
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19:
haw-haw en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ha-ha (a ditch acting as a sunken fence)
One line of steps we traced from the spot to the haw-haw; they were very distinct upon the turf; the heel was toward the haw-haw, the toe toward the spot where the murder was committed.
1847, George Payne Rainsford James, A Whim and Its Consequences:[…] there were three hundred yards or so of meadow ending in a haw-haw, and then a low courtyard wall.
2015, Matthew De Abaitua, If Then:
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haw-haw en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ha-ha (“to laugh”).
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