Haw
[hɔː] or [hɔ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the nictitating membrane of a horse.
(verb.) utter `haw'; 'he hemmed and hawed'.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
(n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.
(n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
(n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
(v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
(v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.
(v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
校對:史蒂文
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Hesitate (in speaking), stammer, stutter, falter, hum and haw.
編輯:曼纽尔
解釋/意思:
n. a hedge or enclosure: a field: the berry of the hawthorn.—ns. Haw′-buck a clown; Haw′finch the common grosbeak; Haw′thorn a shrub or small tree much planted both for hedges and for ornament: the white flower of the hawthorn.
n. the nictitating membrane or third eyelid as of a horse; also a disease of this membrane.
v.i. to speak with hesitation or a drawling manner real or affected—hence adj. Haw-haw in an affected tone of voice.—n. a hesitation in speech: loud vulgar laughter.—v.i. to guffaw to laugh boisterously.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Uncommon pretty company--haw, haw! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I was going to say that when I listened that morning, I listened with hadmiration amounting to haw. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Sold at auction,--haw! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Haw, haw, laughed James, encouraged by these compliments; Senior Wrangler, indeed; that's at the other shop. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I suppose, to be sure, if anybody had asked him, plump and fair, whether they had human immortal souls, he might have hemmed and hawed, and said yes. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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