faw

See also: Faw

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː
• Homophones: fough, faugh

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

faw

1. Alternative form of faugh
   • 1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 36:

     "It's a complicated thing, though, isn't it." "Faw!" Churchill said.

   • 2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence:

     “If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
     “Faw,” he said. “And tush.”

Etymology 2

Phonetic rendering of for.

Preposition

faw

1. Pronunciation spelling of for; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
   • 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234:

     “ […] Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin′ at me faw?”

Etymology 3

From the surname Faa.

Noun

faw (plural faws)

1. A gypsy.

See also

• fee-faw-fum (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• FWA, WAF, WFA

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English fawe, faȝe, from Old English fāg, fāh (“coloured; stained; dyed; tinged; shining; variegated”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (“coloured; motley”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to mark, paint, colour”).

Adjective

faw (comparative mair faw, superlative maist faw)

1. Of various colours; variegated