单词 | yaw-haw |
释义 | yaw-hawn. Intended to represent an affected pronunciation characterized by loose articulation in which open vowel sounds predominate. Hence attributive, as n. (= affected person) and v. (cf. yaw int., yaw-yaw v.). Π 1867 E. B. Ramsay Art of Reading 9 All reading where sounding the vowels predominates is indistinct. At Cambridge, in my time, it used to be called a ‘yaw-haw’ reading. 1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred vii That yaw-hawing donkey, Berkeley. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2018). yaw-hawv. intransitive. To laugh rudely or noisily. 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 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xix I had to pucker up my mouth..to keep from yawhawin in her face. Derivatives yaw-haw n. a loud or rude laugh. ΘΚΠ 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 1912 H. Macfall in English Rev. Jan. 334 A booth at a fair, a place set up but to tickle the country-bumpkins into yaw-haws. yaw-hawing adj. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1867v.1836 |
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