1825–35; imitative; see ha-ha 1
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But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were enclosed by a haw-haw; the causeway which crossed it having a gate also.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
But there is the haw-haw fence between them.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
I repaid this sum later on, but Mr. McComb never failed, whenever I made a business proposition that seemed hazardous, to say, with a great haw-haw: "Well, John, that is one of your salt speculations."
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
While Colonel Lunsford and Captain Trevor were waiting for the haw-haw gate to be opened, they had seen the figures of two ladies outlined in the withdrawing-room windows—one in each.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
The last person to be convicted under the separate and more serious Treason Act of 1351 was William Joyce, a World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
West’s account of the trial of William Joyce, better known as Lord Haw-Haw, the British fascist and Nazi propagandist who was executed in 1946 for treason, is an odd read.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2017
Game changing news in the Fifa corruption war, as Qatar unveils its Lord Haw-Haw.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2014
But this time it is the Gestapo, which wishes him to become a Russian Lord Haw-Haw.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this the great head of Mac Strann rolled back and he raised his glance to Haw-Haw, who banished the grin from his mouth by a vicious effort.
From The Night Horseman by Brand, Max
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