Yawn vs Yaws - What's the difference?
yawn | yaws |
To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
* Trumbull
To present a wide opening.
* Shakespeare
To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
* Landor
The action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.
A particularly boring event.
(disease) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue , characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.
(yaw)
As verbs the difference between yawn and yaws
is that yawn is to open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation while yaws is (yaw).As nouns the difference between yawn and yaws
is that yawn is the action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired while yaws is (disease) a contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete treponema pertenue , characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.yawn
English
(wikipedia yawn)Verb
(en verb)- I could see my students yawning , so I knew the lesson was boring them.
- And while above he spends his breath, / The yawning audience nod beneath.
- The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
- Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.
- 'Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn .
- (Shakespeare)
- to yawn for fat livings
- one long, yawning gaze
Noun
(en noun)- The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn . I was glad when it finished.
