dawb

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

dawb (third-person singular simple present dawbs, present participle dawbing, simple past and past participle dawbed)

  1. Archaic form of daub.

Noun[edit]

dawb (plural dawbs)

  1. Archaic form of daub.

Anagrams[edit]

White Hmong[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Hmong *qlowᴬ (“white”).[1] The "free" sense is perhaps a semantic loan from Thai ขาว (kǎao, “white”) or Lao ຂາວ (khāo, “white”), both which have a colloquial usage meaning "free of charge".

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

dawb

  1. white
  2. (both literally and figurately) clean
  3. of or relating to Caucasian

Adjective[edit]

dawb

  1. free of charge
  2. not requiring any payment
  3. unoccupied, idle

Adverb[edit]

dawb

  1. free of charge
  2. without any payment being required

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 243; 274.
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