different between daw vs faw

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: door (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English dawe, from Old English d?we, from Proto-Germanic *d?h? (compare German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach), from Proto-Indo-European *d??k?- (compare Old Prussian doacke (“starling”)).

Noun

daw (plural daws)

1. A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew

     The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws / The whole assembly of his fellow daws.

   • […] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

     For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

2. (obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p.

     ‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.

Synonyms

• jackdaw (Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw, western jackdaw)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dawen, from Old English dagian (“to dawn”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag?n, from Proto-Germanic *dag?n? (“to become day, dawn”), from *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”). More at day, dawn.

Verb

daw (third-person singular simple present daws, present participle dawing, simple past and past participle dawed)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn.
2. (obsolete) To wake (someone) up.
3. (obsolete) To daunt; to terrify.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Derived terms

• adaw
• bedaw

Translations

Anagrams

• -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad

Bikol Central

Particle

daw

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

Matal

Verb

daw

1. to throw, cast

2. to sell

References

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• dao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dau/, [da??]
• (between vowels) IPA^(key): /?au/, [?a??]
• Rhymes: -aw

Particle

daw

1. Indicates something said by another person or group

Welsh

Alternative forms

• deith (colloquial)
• dêl (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /da?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /dau?/

Verb

daw

1. third-person singular present/future of dod

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Onomatopoetic.

Interjection

faw

1. Alternative form of faugh

Synonyms

• (disgust): bleah, eww, ick, pooh, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck
• (contempt): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

Etymology 2

Phonetic rendering of for.

Preposition

faw

1. Pronunciation spelling of for; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
   • 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234,

     “ […] Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin? at me faw?”

Etymology 3

From the surname Faa.

Noun

faw (plural faws)

1. A gypsy.

Anagrams

• FWA, WAF

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English fawe, fa?e, from Old English f?g, f?h (“coloured; stained; dyed; tinged; shining; variegated”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (“coloured; motley”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“to paint; mark; colour”).

Adjective

faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)

1. Of various colours; variegated