faw

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

faw

  1. Alternative form of faugh
    • 1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 36:
      "It's a complicated thing, though, isn't it." "Faw!" Churchill said.
    • 2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence:
      “If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
      “Faw,” he said. “And tush.”

Etymology 2

Phonetic rendering of for.

Preposition

faw

  1. Pronunciation spelling of for; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.

Etymology 3

From the surname Faa.

Noun

faw (plural faws)

  1. A gypsy.

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Anagrams

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English fawe, faȝe, from Old English fāg, fāh (“coloured; stained; dyed; tinged; shining; variegated”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (“coloured; motley”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to mark, paint, colour”).

Adjective

faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)

  1. Of various colours; variegated
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