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waw
1[ vahv, vawv ]
wāw
2[ wou ]
noun
- the 27th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of waw1
Borrowed into English from Arabic around 1825–35
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Example Sentences
Sometimes instead of the gain-skoot they used waw-pah-tee, which was simply a guessing game.
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War prophets and medicine men, waw keen, were revered as demi-gods.
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Tar-water, tr′-waw′tr, n. cold infusion of tar in water, once used as a medicine for chest complaints.
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Waw, its just loike one ov her tricks;-tha knows shoo wor allus a trimmer o' one, Dick.
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A black stood grinning at the wheel, and the Willi-Waw, heeled over from the wind, was foaming along.
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