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waw

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9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/wɔː/
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/wɔː/ · /wɑːw/ · /waʊ/

Definition of waw

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To stir; move; wave.
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To stir; move; wave.

noun

  1. (obsolete)A wave.
    “[…] nigh it drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift: For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.”
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)A wall.
    “She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.”
    “T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.”
  3. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
  4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of vav.
    “Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.”
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of write after write, a kind of data hazard.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of writing about writing.

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Etymology

From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).

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