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haw-haw en · INTJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ha ha (“laughter”) (sometimes suggesting an upper-class British accent)
    alt of ha ha
    • "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

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ha-ha (a ditch acting as a sunken fence)
    alt of ha-ha
    • 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:

Forms

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haw-haws Number=Plur lexicographic

haw-haw en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ha-ha (“to laugh”).
    alt of ha-ha

Forms

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haw-hawed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
haw-hawed Tense=Past lexicographic
haw-haws Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
haw-hawing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic