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▪ I. haw-haw, int., n., and a.|ˈhɔːˈhɔː|
[Echoic; cf. ha ha.]
A. int. An expression of hesitation uttered repeatedly in an affected tone. Also, the representation of loud or boisterous laughter.
1834Seba Smith Maj. J. Downing's Lett. (1835) 160 ‘Major, call back Jany, and Barry, and Amos, and haw-haw-haw’, says the Gineral.
B. n. The utterance of haw haw; a loud or boisterous laugh, a guffaw.
1834James Robber i, The first indication of his coming was a peal of laughter, a loud ‘Haw, haw, haw’. 1889A. R. Hope in Boy's Own Paper 10 Aug. 715/3 There was another chorus of haw-haws, which made Ronald's temper boil over.
C. attrib. or adj. Characterized by the utterance of haw haw as an affected expression of hesitation. Freq. applied to what is taken to resemble upper-class speech.
1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. (1851) 314 (Hoppe) ‘Hush!’ said the stranger, perfectly unconcerned, and regaining the dignity of his haw haw enunciation. 1866Cornh. Mag. Oct. 464 The affected, lisping, and haw-haw fool. 1867F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1891) 102 Lounging with that ineffable haw-haw air of your Rotten Row. 1900Daily News 8 Oct., The Censor was one of those haw-haw officers, who look down upon men like me as unnecessary upon this earth. Ibid. 20 Nov. 3/5 The answer I got was in Mr. Hales's ‘haw-haw’ style. ‘Ah've nothing to dah with Mafeking.’ 1913R. Brooke Let. 22 Nov. (1968) 535 Weedy Australian clerks, uncertain whether they most despise a ‘haw-haw Englishman’, or a ‘dam nigger’. 1941Time 27 Jan. 22/1 Declaring that BBC announcers were ‘too haw haw’ in their diction, he is responsible for the nickname ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ given to Nazi propagandist William Joyce. 1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. 108 The language..must have seemed..upper class and ‘haw-haw’. 1968Listener 9 May 615/2 Kuo-yü spoken in the next room can sound just like somewhat haw-haw English.
Hence haw-ˈhawism, the habit of affectedly uttering haw haw.
1867E. Yates Forlorn Hope x, Forbes would assume a languid haw-hawism.
▪ II. haw-haw, v.
[f. prec.]
a. intr. To utter haw haw; to laugh loudly or boisterously.
b. trans. To laugh at. Hence haw-hawing vbl. n.
1834Seba Smith Maj. J. Downing's Lett. (1835) 160 He step'd up to me..throw'd his head back, and haw-haw'd right out. 1862Thackeray Philip III. xxxi. 30 It's good to see him haw-haw Bickerton. 1889A. R. Hope in Boy's Own Paper 10 Aug. 715/3 The other rustics haw-hawed at their master's repartee. 1922Z. Grey To Last Man x. 226 Some of the gang haw-hawed him.
▪ III. haw-haw
var. ha-ha n.2 |