Haw vs Hew - What's the difference?
haw | hew |
An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw'' or ''haw haw haw ).
An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
* Congreve
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw ; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
(of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
To cause (an animal) to turn left.
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To shape; to form.
* Bible, Is. li. 1
* Alexander Pope
(US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).
* 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography ,
* 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,
* 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,
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*:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
(obsolete) hue; colour
(obsolete) shape; form
Destruction by cutting down.
* Spenser
As proper nouns the difference between haw and hew
is that haw is while hew is .haw
English
Etymology 1
ImitativeInterjection
(en interjection)- You think that song was good? Haw!
- Hums or haws .
Usage notes
* (an imitation of laughter) In the US, the spelling haw is rare, with (ha) being more common.Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* hum and haw, hem and hawEtymology 2
(etyl) hawe, from (etyl) ).Etymology 3
UnknownInterjection
(en interjection)Verb
(en verb)- This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
- You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.
Derived terms
* gee haw whimmy diddle * haw and gee, haw and gee aboutAntonyms
* (to turn left) gee * (to cause to turn left) geeEtymology 4
Uncertain.Anagrams
* * ----hew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
- Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- to hew out a sepulchre
- Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .
- rather polishing old works than hewing out new
]Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,
- Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
- Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
- Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,
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Derived terms
* hewer * rough-hewEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .