gaw
/gaw/US // gɔ //
嘎嘎
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Chiefly Scot.
- : a narrow, trenchlike depression, especially a furrow in the earth or a worn or thin area in cloth.
Examples
Meach-o-shn-gaw, Little White Bear; a spirited and distinguished brave, with a scalping-knife grasped in his hand.
Every gew-gaw which flashes on that haughty head, too haughty to bend to me, shall shriek my name into your ears.
Well, why in heaven's name shouldn't High Jinks buy a trumpery, gee-gaw parasol?
And when you get a life that finds pleasure in a trumpery, gee-gaw parasol, well that's more pathetic still.
So begin play lika diss: 'O Gaw, O my ancestors, givva me res'; givva me foo'; givva me wadder!
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