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gaw
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Etymology 1
Middle English gowen (“to stare”), from Old Norse gá.
Verb
gaw (third-person singular simple present gaws, present participle gawing, simple past and past participle gawed)
- (obsolete) to stare or gape
Etymology 2
Minced oath for God.
Interjection
gaw
- An expletive, expressing disbelief, horror, or disdain
Synonyms
- (expressing disbelief): fiddlesticks, get out of town, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit
- (expressing horror or shock): gorblimey, Jeebus, Jiminy Cricket, 'sblood; see also Thesaurus:wow
- (expressing disdain): feh, pfaugh, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah
Translations
Anagrams
- AGW, AWG, GWA, WAG, WGA, wag
Cebuano
Etymology
From ig-agaw.
Noun
gaw
- an address to a cousin
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gawn
English
Etymology 1
Corrupted from gallon.
Noun
gawn (plural gawns)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Corrupted from going.
Verb
gawn
- (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
- 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:
- I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.
- 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:
- Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”
- 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:
- “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”
- 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:
Anagrams
- AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?au?n/
Noun
gawn
- Soft mutation of cawn.
Verb
gawn
- Soft mutation of cawn.
Mutation
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- night gown
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