different between yawn vs gawn
yawn
English
Etymology
Partly from Middle English yanen, yonen, yenen (“to yawn”), from Old English ?inian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-Germanic *gin?n? (“to yawn”); and partly from Middle English gonen (“to gape, yawn”), from Old English g?nian (“to yawn, gape”), from Proto-Germanic *gain?n? (“to yawn, gape”); both from Proto-Indo-European *??i-, *??eyh?- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with North Frisian jåne (“to yawn”), Saterland Frisian jaanje, joanje (“to yawn”), Middle Dutch genen, ghenen (“to yawn”), German Low German jahnen (“to yawn”), German gähnen (“to yawn, gape”), dialectal Swedish gana (“to gape, gawk”), dialectal Norwegian gina (“to gape”).
Compare also Old Church Slavonic ??? (z?j?) (Russian ??????? (zínut?), ?????? (ziját?)), Greek ????? (khaín?)), Latin hi?, Tocharian A ?ew, Tocharian B k?y?, Lithuanian žioti, Sanskrit ???? (jeh)
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: yôn, IPA(key): /j??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
- (US) enPR: yôn, IPA(key): /j?n/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: yän, IPA(key): /j?n/
- Homophone: yon (with cot-caught merger)
Verb
yawn (third-person singular simple present yawns, present participle yawning, simple past and past participle yawned)
- (intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. ,[1]
- […] I found my self towards Evening, first empty and sickish at my Stomach, and nearer Night mightily enclin’d to yawning and sleepy […]
- c. 1773, John Trumbull, The Progress of Dulness, Exeter, New Hampshire: Henry Ranlet, 1794, Part 1, p. 19,[2]
- And while above he spends his breath,
- The yawning audience nod beneath.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. ,[1]
- To say while yawning.
- 1922, Stephen McKenna, The Secret Victory, New York: George H. Doran, Chapter Ten, p. 214,[3]
- “I haven’t the least idea what I want to do,” he yawned.
- 1978, Andrew Holleran, The Dancer from the Dance, New York: Bantam, 1979, Chapter 8, p. 217,[4]
- “Oh,” Sutherland yawned, “I’m too old for this.”
- 1922, Stephen McKenna, The Secret Victory, New York: George H. Doran, Chapter Ten, p. 214,[3]
- To present a wide opening.
- The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
- Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,[5]
- ’Tis now the very witching time of night,
- When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
- Contagion to this world.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 874-875,[6]
- […] Hell at last
- Yawning receavd them whole, and on them clos’d,
- (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, Scene 2,[7]
- […] O heavy hour!
- Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
- Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe
- Should yawn at alteration.
- 1606, Thomas Dekker, Nevves from hell brought by the Diuells carrier, London: W. Ferebrand, [8]
- […] Hell being vnder euerie one of their Stages, the Players (if they had owed him a spight) might with a false Trappe doore haue slipt him downe, and there kept him, as a laughing stocke to al their yawning Spectators.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, Scene 2,[7]
- (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
- to yawn for fat livings
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, London: Taylor & Hessey, Volume I, “Milton and Andrew Marvel,” p. 6,[9]
- Fly not, as thou wert wont, to his embrace,
- Lest, after one long yawning gaze, he swear
- Thou art the best good fellow in the world,
- But he had quite forgotten thee, by Jove!
Derived terms
- yawnable
- yawner
- yawningly
Translations
Noun
yawn (plural yawns)
- The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 11,[10]
- At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! […] ”
- 1902, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon, Chapter 6,[11]
- But Mrs. MacWhirr, in the drawing-room […] , stifled a yawn—perhaps out of self-respect—for she was alone.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 11,[10]
- (colloquial) A particularly boring event.
- The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn. I was glad when it finished.
Derived terms
- multicolour yawn
- Technicolor yawn
- yawnfest
- yawnless
- yawn-sigh
- yawnsome
- yawny
Translations
References
Anagrams
- YNWA, awny, wany, wayn
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gawn
English
Etymology 1
Corrupted from gallon.
Noun
gawn (plural gawns)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.
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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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