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English

Alternative forms

• daut

Verb

dawt (third-person singular simple present dawts, present participle dawting, simple past and past participle dawted)

1. (Scotland) To fondle or caress.

Synonyms

• faddle, grope, pettle, tiddle; see also Thesaurus:fondle

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