Haw

Interjection

 * 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!

Noun

 * 1) Fruit of the hawthorn.
 * 2)  A hedge.

Interjection

 * 1) An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn left.

Verb

 * 1)  To turn left.
 * This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
 * 1) To cause (an animal) to turn left.
 * You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.

Derived terms

 * gee haw whimmy diddle
 * hem and haw
 * hum and haw

Antonyms

 * gee
 * gee

Thesaurus
avert, bear off, draw aside, ease off, edge off, falter, fly off, gee, glance, glance off, go off, halt, head off, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hum, hum and haw, jib, make way for, mammer, move aside, sheer off, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, stammer, steer clear of, step aside, stumble, stutter, switch, turn aside, turn away, turn back, veer off

Etymology 1
Imitative

Etymology 2
hawe:, from haga: 'enclosure, hedge', from  (compare West Frisian haach:, Dutch haag:, German Hag: 'hedged farmland'), from  (compare Welsh cae: 'hedge', Latin caulae: 'sheepfold, enclosure', cohum: 'strap between plowbeam and yoke', Russian undefined:, undefined: 'hurdle', Sanskrit undefined: 'curtain wall'), from  'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau: 'to clasp', Oscan kahad: 'may he seize', Albanian kam:, ke: 'to have, hold').

Etymology 3
Unknown

Interjection

 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: meidoornbes


 * Finnish: orapihlajanmarja


 * Dutch:


 * French:

Anagrams

 * wah
 * wha

Verb form

 * 1) first person present-tense form of hawwe
 * 2) imperative form of hawwe