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waw | faw |

As a verb waw

is to stir; move; wave.

As a noun waw

is a wave.

As a preposition faw is

eye dialect of nodot=true lang=en; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.

waw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wawen, .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wawe, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, water) A (l).
  • * , II.xii:
    • nigh it drawes / All passengers, that none from it can shift: / For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, / They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes .

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with Scots (m), (m).

    Alternative forms

    * * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wall

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) . * Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ** Last: ** Next:

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: .

    • Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----

    faw

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • ; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States .
  • * 1907 , , Old Creole Days , Gutenberg eBook #10234,
    • “Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin? at me faw ?”

    Anagrams

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