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Slaw vs Shaw - What's the difference?

slaw | shaw |

As a noun slaw

is (us|canada) coleslaw.

As a proper noun shaw is

an english topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.

slaw

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, Canada) Coleslaw.
  • * 1996', Jerry Bledsoe, '''''Slaw Crazy'', Lee Harrison Child (editor), ''Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors , page 66,
    • Barbecue is always served with slaw in North Carolina and always has been.
  • * 2002 , Alex Haas, Everyday Low Carb Cooking , page 73,
    • My boss, whose daughter was a working chef, told me that I made the best slaws' that she had ever tasted. The secret is that ' slaws deserve as much care in their preparation as any other good meal.
  • * 2010 , Judy Doherty, Salad Secrets: 100 of the Most Creative, Healthful Recipes , page 103,
    • Slaws go well with grilled lean protein items and sandwiches.

    Derived terms

    * cheese slaw * red slaw * white slaw

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    shaw

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shawe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
  • *1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems , V, lines 1-2
    • The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
  • (label) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon, 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p.35:
  • *:Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

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