haw

1. 1.

   utter `haw'

   “he hemmed and hawed”

   Broaderutter

Other forms of haw

plural

haws·

past tense

hawed·

present participle

hawing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about haw

What does haw mean?

haw means "a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haw?

haw has 1 syllable: haw. In IPA it is /ˈhɔ/.

What is another word for haw?

Close synonyms include hawthorn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haw a common word?

haw is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.