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haw

/haw/US // hɔ //UK // (hɔː) //

鹰爪,鹰击长空,鹰派,鹰嘴

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sound or pause of hesitation.Compare hem.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We hemmed and hawed endlessly about how to approach our new neighbors about this.

  • Any senator interested in having a higher platform from which to attract attention can hem and haw over any picayune vote to their heart’s content.

  • If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

  • They back away and hem and haw and leave it to the lower courts to implement their decisions.

  • A chorus of haw haws, showed how delighted his fellow-clowns were with farmer Joe's story.

  • The Irish title of the letter a or haw is alif, as also is the Arabian: the Greek alpha is either alpa or alfa.

  • This seemed a good joke, and they all howled and haw-hawed gleefully.

  • Why do these—these people at the fort hem and haw and hesitate when they speak about him?

  • He looked like an animated drying-post, and the Dutch boy, in spite of his troubles, began to haw-haw wildly.