gaw
See also: Gaw
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Middle English gowen (“to stare”), from Old Norse gá.
Verb
gaw (third-person singular simple present gaws, present participle gawing, simple past and past participle gawed)
Etymology 2
Minced oath for God.
Interjection
gaw
- An expletive, expressing disbelief, horror, or disdain
- 1908, H. G. Wells, “IX: On Goat Island”, in The War in the Air:
- "Gaw!" he whispered, "I don' like dead bodies some'ow! I'd almost rather that chap was alive."
Synonyms
- (expressing disbelief): fiddlesticks, get out of town, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit
- (expressing horror or shock): gorblimey, Jeebus, Jiminy Cricket, 'sblood; see also Thesaurus:wow
- (expressing disdain): feh, pfaugh, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah
Translations
expressing disbelief
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Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From ig-agaw.
Noun
gaw
- an address to a cousin
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