yaw-hawn.
Intended to represent an affected pronunciation characterized by loose articulation in which open vowel sounds predominate. Hence attributive, as n. (= affected person) and v. (cf. yaw int., yaw-yaw v.).
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1867 E. B. Ramsay Art of Reading 9 All reading where sounding the vowels predominates is indistinct. At Cambridge, in my time, it used to be called a ‘yaw-haw’ reading.
1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred vii That yaw-hawing donkey, Berkeley.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
yaw-hawv.
/ˈjɔːˈhɔː/ intransitive. To laugh rudely or noisily.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh loudly or coarsely
kenchc1225
fleer1553
checkle1627
roar1689
guffaw1721
horse-laugh1763
cachinnate1824
snort1825
haw-haw1833
yaw-haw1836
to laugh like a drain1948
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xix I had to pucker up my mouth..to keep from yawhawin in her face.
Derivatives
yaw-haw n. a loud or rude laugh.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > loud, coarse, or immoderate laughter > instance or outburst of
gawf?a1513
roar1675
horse-laugh1713
guffaw1720
ha ha1806
haw-haw1838
hee-haw1843
yaw-haw1912
1912 H. Macfall in English Rev. Jan. 334 A booth at a fair, a place set up but to tickle the country-bumpkins into yaw-haws.
yaw-hawing adj.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1867
v.1836