单词 | haw-haw |
释义 | haw-hawv. a. intransitive. To utter haw haw; to laugh loudly or boisterously. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh loudly or coarsely kenchc1225 fleer1553 checkle1627 roar1689 guffaw1721 horse-laugh1763 cachinnate1824 snort1825 haw-haw1833 yaw-haw1836 to laugh like a drain1948 1833 Lett. President's Tour by Major Jack Downing xii. 43 The President haw haw'd rite out. 1889 A. R. Hope in Boy's Own Paper 10 Aug. 715/3 The other rustics haw-hawed at their master's repartee. b. transitive. To laugh at. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > laugh to scorn laugheOE laughOE bilauhOE to laugh to scorn (also bismer, hething, hoker)OE to laugh or take to scorninga1400 deride1530 outlaugh1605 smile1608 arride1612 fleer1622 irride1637 haw-haw1862 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip xxxi, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 260 It's good to see him haw-haw Bickerton. 1922 Z. Grey To Last Man x. 226 Some of the gang haw-hawed him. Derivatives haw-hawing n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). haw-hawint.n.adj. A. int. An expression of hesitation uttered repeatedly in an affected tone. Also, the representation of loud or boisterous laughter. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > utterance expressing hesitation [interjection] hum1598 ha1609 haw1679 ahem1763 haw-haw1834 h'm1854 uh1962 1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 201 ‘Major call back Tany 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering > sound or form used in hum1469 hick1607 ha1612 hack1660 haw-haw1838 hesitation-form1933 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > loud, coarse, or immoderate laughter > instance or outburst of gawf?a1513 roar1675 horse-laugh1713 guffaw1720 ha ha1806 haw-haw1838 hee-haw1843 yaw-haw1912 1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. i. 14 The first indication of his coming was a peal of laughter, a loud ‘Haw, haw, haw’. 1889 A. 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. adj. Characterized by the utterance of haw haw as an affected expression of hesitation. Frequently applied to what is taken to resemble upper-class speech. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting refinement young-ladyfied1616 genteel1631 genteea1680 fal-lal1747 shabby-genteel1754 fine-ladylike1755 fine-ladyish1777 ladyish1830 silver-fork1831 haw-haw1841 lardy-dardy1861 la-di-dac1883 refained1925 the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing > of speech minced?1542 haw-haw1841 plummy1881 cultivated1908 pan-loafy1946 pan-loaf1947 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning (1851) 314 ‘Hush!’ said the stranger, perfectly unconcerned, and regaining the dignity of his haw haw enunciation. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 464 The affected, lisping, and haw-haw fool. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 102 Lounging with that ineffable haw-haw air of your Rotten Row. 1900 Daily News 8 Oct. The Censor was one of those haw-haw officers, who look down upon men like me as unnecessary upon this earth. 1900 Daily News 20 Nov. 3/5 The answer I got was in Mr. Hales's ‘haw-haw’ style. ‘Ah've nothing to dah with Mafeking.’ 1913 R. Brooke Let. 22 Nov. (1968) 535 Weedy Australian clerks, uncertain whether they most despise a ‘haw-haw Englishman’, or a ‘dam nigger’. 1941 Time 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. 1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 108 The language..must have seemed..upper class and ‘haw-haw’. 1968 Listener 9 May 615/2 Kuo-yü spoken in the next room can sound just like somewhat haw-haw English. Derivatives haw-ˈhawism n. the habit of affectedly uttering haw haw. ΚΠ 1867 E. Yates Forlorn Hope I. x. 224 Forbes would assume a languid haw-hawism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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