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单词 yaw-yaw
释义 yaw-yaw, v.|ˈjɔːˈjɔː|
[Cf. yaw int.]
intr. a. To say ‘yaw! yaw!’; to talk affectedly. b. To utter inarticulate cries resembling the syllables ‘yaw, yaw’. Hence yawyawdom (nonce-wd.), an affected expression.
1854Dickens Hard T. ii. ii, They liked fine gentlemen... They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them.1862― in R. C. Lehmann C. D. as Editor (1912) 319 The word ‘shindy’, or any similar yaw-yawdom.1885W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. in Jungle vi. 63 The jackals..broke out into a perfect concert of agonized yelping and yaw-yawing.
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