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Definition of Hawed
1. haw [v] - See also: haw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawed
Literary usage of Hawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Gas and Gasoline Journal (1918)
"She hemmed and hawed and blushed prettily and finally said no, ... And Luck hemmed
and hawed and said no, I prefer to stick with you, Mr. Stenographer. ..."
2. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"at snuff-box; tumbled up, he-heed, Haw-hawed (not hee-hawed, that's another guess
thing:) Then fumbled at, and stumbled out of, door, ..."
3. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"The man at the Chief Office hemmed and hawed. ... Again he hemmed and hawed. "
Of course," I hastily anticipated, " I know it is unprecedented, ..."
4. English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten (1890)
"... pulled its long ears ; well, he pulled, and he pulled, till one of them came
off in his hands; but Neddy, though he hee-hawed and he hee-hawed let fall ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1903)
"And then, Sir," said an old elector, recalling those times to Allan Cunningham, "
it we hemmed and hawed they'd ask us for our wives and children ; and if ..."
6. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association (1884)
"When oats are well headed and ripe, they are said to be hawed (S.) Hassocks,
coarse grass growing in tufts in wet places (C.) ..."
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