Hawing vs Chawing - What's the difference?
hawing | chawing |
The act of saying "haw", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
* 1847 , The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review (page 285)
As verbs the difference between hawing and chawing
is that hawing is while chawing is , ie nonstandard variant of chewing.As a noun hawing
is the act of saying "haw", in intermission or hesitation of speech.hawing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings , tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them