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haw-haw

/haw-haw/US // ˈhɔˌhɔ //UK // (ˈhɔːˈhɔː) //

哈罗,鹰爪

Definitions

interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    n.名词 noun
    1. 1
      • : a guffaw.

    Examples

    • 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.