hawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).

間投詞

haw

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!

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.

2. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
   • 1720, William Congreve, An Impossible Thing:

     Hums or haws.

使用する際の注意点

• (an imitation of laughter): In the US, haw is rare (it was more used in the past), with ha being more common.

派生語

動詞

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

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

派生語

• hum and haw, hem and haw

語源 2

From 中期英語 hawe, from 古期英語 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”).

名詞

haw (plural haws)

1. Fruit of the hawthorn.

   Synonym: hawthorn berry

2. (historical) A hedge.
3. (obsolete) Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act II:

     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.

派生語

語源 3

Assumed to be interjectory, but compare 古期英語 hawian (“to observe, look”)

間投詞

haw

1. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.

   Coordinate term: gee

動詞

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

1. (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.

   Antonym: gee

   This horse won't haw when I tell him to.

2. To cause (an animal) to turn left.

   Antonym: gee

   You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.

派生語

参照

• “haw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 4

Late 中期英語 (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.

名詞

haw (countable and uncountable, plural haws)

1. (countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
2. (uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.

参照

アナグラム

• WHA, Wah, wah, wha